Schools
Immanuel Lutheran School Breaks Ground On New Gym
Construction has begun on a new gym and cafeteria for Immanuel Lutheran School.
After a year of sharing a gym with the , Immanuel Lutheran School is breaking ground on a new gymnasium.
The new gym will be a large, regulation-size gymnasium with 1,500 square feet of kitchen and cafeteria space.
School Principal Allison Dolak said staff members at have had to make due without a gym and a full service cafeteria for the past year.
“The people that work here are very accommodating and very flexible, so they understood why we couldn’t have a gym right away and just worked to adapt.”
Dolak said the new gym is necessary to accommodate the growing number of students at Immanuel Lutheran.
“I feel really blessed to have the growing pains or growing issues that we have, because there are a lot of schools that are losing enrollment, and we’re so lucky to be, essentially, 40 kids more than three years ago.”
The gym is to be completed by this September. Dan Rolwes from Demien Construction said the wet weather has delayed any major construction on the new gymnasium, but workers plan to move quickly in the next few weeks.
“In a week, hopefully, we will get footing and foundation poured,” Rolwes said. “We would have made some larger changes if it weren’t for the rain.”
Construction for the new gym will cost the school about $1.7 million.
The school sold the property from the old gym to Wentzville School District for $1.3 million.