Pace Academy
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Pace Academy
The Arthur M. Blank Family
New Upper School
Located at the main campus on West Paces Ferry Road in Atlanta, GA, and situated on the footprint of the existing Upper School, the new 78,000 sf, four-story facility will double the space of the current Upper School. Also included within the three-year, $32,000,000 building program are extensive phased renovations of the existing Boyd Gym, Inman Recreation Center, Recreation Fields, Riverview Athletic Complex, as well as the construction of a temporary Upper School Academic Village. Logistically constrained in a very tight and active campus environment, the planning requirements associated with this project are extraordinary. Construction efforts will require deep excavations immediately adjacent to the historic Castle, and intensive coordination has been conducted with the goal of achieving zero-disruption of ongoing campus activities. To allow for the demolition of the existing Upper School, a new and fully functioning Academic Village consisting of 65 modular classrooms will be constructed and fully-outfitted on the existing recreation fields. Once completed, the existing Upper School facility will be vacated and demolished making way for the new state-of-the-art Upper School. Construction will begin immediately following the 2012-13 school year, and The Arthur M. Blank Family Upper School building will open in August 2014.
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Pace Academy was founded in Atlanta 1958 by an interfaith group of local community leaders. They envisioned a community open to fresh ideas and debate in the great liberal arts tradition. The school was incorporated on June 30, 1958, with an initial enrollment of 178 students, for the purpose of “training and educating children and operating a school and kindergarten.” Pace Academy is situated on 37 acres in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood. The school’s landmark building, the Castle, was constructed as a private residence in 1932 for the Ogden family.