Project Details
Location: Northwest / Lyell-Otis Corridor
Grades: PreK-6
Budget: $26.4 Million
Architect: Labella
Construction Manager: Buffalo Construction Consultants
Completed: 2020
The Flower City School 54 is one of the most significant projects of the RSMP to date. The program was permanently relocated to the former School 30, whose site is considerably less than half the minimum usable area by SED standards. The RJSCB, accordingly, authorized a ‘mini campus plan’ to better enhance the Phase 2 Project which was completed for the start of the 2020-21 school year. The original base scope included:
- The roof and curtain wall window system (a rather unique original installation) were installed, along with MEP infrastructure systems.
- Shared special purpose spaces — art, choral, band, computer, and library — were provided as new converted/expanded instructional spaces.
- A functional new main entry complemented by safer on-site bus boarding, as well as convenient staff and visitor parking to relieve neighborhood streets.
- New age-appropriate early childhood & intermediate grades playgrounds.
The City and the RCSD acquired six residential properties which allowed for partial abandonment of Chace Street and taken together increased the site by almost 50%. The transformation and full development of the Flower City School 54 ‘urban campus’, a much safer on-site busway for all daily student arrivals/departures, a multi-purpose grass play field, visitor parking, as well as the flexibility to expand to a full-sized gym and additional 8-classroom building are envisioned for the urban campus.
