The Cherokee County Board of Education will be asked Thursday to move forward with a new/replacement administration building and educational services facility in downtown Canton.
The project calls for demolition of two buildings already on the site. The Cherokee County Historical Society asked that at least one of the structures that it considers historic be incorporated into the new center,but Superintendent Frank Petruzielo has said that renovating them would be millions of dollars more expensive than a new facility. He also noted structural, asbestos and other issues.
The planned facility would be a 3-story, 75,000 square-foot center costing $9.9 million. Petruzielo said that renovating the existing so-called “A “ and “B” buildings would yield only 31,000 square feet of space at a cost in excess of $14 million.
The meeting begins at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Canton High School school board auditorium, 111 Academy St.
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