| May 25, 2009 | |
New University Prep Science & Math High School to open on E. Riverfront Work
has begun on the renovation of the Albert Kahn-designed Franklin
Furniture building in the East Riverfront district. The building will
become a University Prep Science & Math High School. The school will be 80,000 square feet with 20,000 square feet on each of the classroom floors, and another 20,000 square feet on a newly-constructed fourth floor for a gym, cafe, conference room and terrace. The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan awarded a grant of $1.5 million to New Urban Learning, the nonprofit parent organization of University Prep Science & Math and University Prep Academy, to support the renovation. The Thompson Education Foundation is contributing the remaining $13.5 million of the funds necessary to complete the job. Mariam Noland, president of CFSEM, says the school's location is part of what makes it exciting for her agency. "There is a new state park two blocks away, and the opportunity to use that as outdoor laboratory is very interesting," she says. The high school is scheduled to open in September 2010 with 108 students in the ninth grade. A grade will be added each year until it is a full high school, with 450 students, in 2013. It will be aligned with University Prep Science & Math Middle School, which moves into its permanent facility at the Detroit Science Center this September. This will be the seventh school that Thompson Education Foundation has either constructed or renovated for Detroit students in the past six years. Source: Mariam Noland, CFSEM Writer: Kelli B. Kavanaugh 
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