The Hamilton County school board will vote next week on an updated facilities plan that recommends renovating a former BlueCross BlueShield building on West M.L. King Boulevard into a career and technical education center.
The recommendations include that and four other school projects, which the district intends to move forward with simultaneously, Superintendent Justin Robertson said.
Under the updated plan, the largest change is the recommendation to renovate the former BlueCross BlueShield building off U.S. 27 into a career center serving high school students that is modeled after the Harrison Bay Future Ready Center, where multiple schools send students to learn about architecture, engineering, construction and other fields.
In January, the school board approved a facilities priorities list that recommended that the building be renovated into a middle-high school with two pathways — one for fine arts and another for career and technical education. The Center for Creative Arts would have been relocated from North Chattanooga to the M.L. King Boulevard site.