The city’s much-anticipated campus for 1,400 middle and high school students will be delayed by one year and won’t open for the 2024-25 school year as planned, but at a groundbreaking ceremony at the site educators said they will implement the district’s comprehensive career academy curriculum on time. The ceremony Monday was held at the former headquarters of Cartus Corp. – a 24-acre property overlooking the Danbury Fair mall that was acquired by the city late last year. It plans to renovate the 270,000-square-foot building into badly needed classrooms to ease crowding at Danbury High School. As hard as leaders pushed to meet an opening deadline of August 2024, the city lost valuable time while acquiring the land because it took months for the seller to remove a restrictive clause on part of the property that would not have allowed any use other than a parking lot. At Monday’s ceremony, Walston stressed that the groundbreaking was about more than just marking the start of the $164 million renovation of the office park that voters approved in the summer.
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