Education Edition - 1736 Magazine, Fall 2019
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Building<br />
for the Future<br />
SALES TAX FUNDS NEW SCHOOLS, HIGH-TECH ADDITIONS IN URBAN CORE<br />
Jeff Baker of GMK Associates<br />
presented the conceptual<br />
master plan for the Academy<br />
of Richmond County high<br />
school at the school’s<br />
auditorium in May.<br />
[MIKE ADAMS/SPECIAL]<br />
By DAMON CLINE<br />
In 1997, Richmond County schools did not look like places that could<br />
educate a 21st-century workforce – especially the schools in the city’s urban<br />
core.<br />
It’s a fact Jeff Baker of construction firm GMK Associates doesn’t<br />
candy-coat.<br />
“A.R. Johnson was falling down. Laney was falling down,” said Baker, head<br />
of company’s construction services, architecture and engineering divisions.<br />
“Sixty percent of all facilities needed serious renovation assistance.”<br />
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