Decatur’s school board will consider collaborating with Columbia Ventures on architectural drawings for a new early childhood learning center within Columbia’s proposed mixed-use development at Sam’s Street and East College Avenue. The vote is scheduled during the board’s monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, at the Central Office/Beacon Municipal Center, 125 Electric Avenue.
Cost for the drawings is approximately $125,000 to $150,000. The proposed ECLC would get included on the site currently a parking lot for the Avondale Estates MARTA Station. The Columbia development’s construction is scheduled to start next year, with 266 apartments (plus 92 more units for seniors) slated for phase one, and a total 500 apartments if the project’s completed.
Superintendent Phyllis Edwards said it might be three years before a new ECLC gets built. The ECLC is currently at College Heights which, Edwards said, could eventually be turned back into a K-3 school.
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