[Note: Correction appended, 9:01 a.m. March 23]
Audubon Charter School is considering building a temporary campus on a vacant lower Garden District lot to house students for the next two years while its Broadway campus is being renovated, officials said.
The lot is located at the corner of Orange and Constance streets, owned by the Kingsley House next door, said Jules Lagarde, design manager for Jacobs/CSRS, the engineering and architecture partnership managing the Boradway campus renovation. The tentative plan is to build two 12-classroom modular buildings — not double-wide trailers, Lagarde said, but full buildings with cafeterias and air-conditioning.
A community meeting about the site plans, traffic patterns and the project timeline will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, at the Sixth Baptist Church at 928 Felicity.
“We are in effect floating a trial layout of the area, trying to gauge the community sentiment,” Lagarde said. “It’s the only site we’ve been able we’ve been able to locate.”
The Broadway campus will move to the new location over the summer as its two-year renovation and expansion project begins. Students are slated to return to the Broadway campus in 2013.
[Correction: Based on incorrect information from a school official late Tuesday, an early version of this article misidentified the location of the school’s temporary campus. This article has been rewritten to reflect the correct information.]
