July 30, 2024

GC/CM sought for new $170M Lynnwood middle school

Concept image from Edmonds School District website [enlarge]

This pre-planning concept image shows the site of the new middle school that has not yet been designed.

The Edmonds School District is seeking a general contractor/construction manager to build a new $170 million, 1,000-student middle school on the site of the former Alderwood Middle School at 20000 28th Ave. W. in Lynnwood.

The school that sits on the site was built in 1965 and is currently serving as an interim school for the district.

A notice for the project ran in last Tuesday's DJC . The district has conducted a pre-planning concept and cost-estimating for the site and plans to use the general contractor/construction manager procurement approach for the school, according to the request for qualifications.

Mahlum Architects was chosen on Friday to design and plan the school, according to a representative for the district. Funding to build the new middle school, which will be the district's fifth, comes from the district's $594 million school construction bond that passed in February. The district plans to open the new middle school to students in September of 2028.

Electronic statements of qualifications for the project are due by noon on Aug. 20. There is an optional project information meeting scheduled at 10 a.m. on Aug. 6 at the site.

The district wants to move all of its sixth graders from elementary to middle schools, and plans to complete all middle school construction, including this fifth middle school, in time for the start of the 2028-29 school year. The site is currently in Snohomish County, but some areas of frontage and road improvements are in Lynnwood. The school district, the city of Lynnwood and Snohomish County have had discussions about potential annexation of the property, according to the RFQ.

The school at the site historically housed Alderwood Middle School and Alderwood Junior High. As reported by the DJC in 2015, a new $50 million Alderwood Middle School was built three miles away abutting Martha Lake Elementary School thanks to a $275 million bond passed in 2014.

The old school building has been used as an interim school site since the new Alderwood Middle School opened in 2017, and is currently serving as the interim location for Oak Heights Elementary School. It will be vacant again in the summer of 2026 when those students move to the rebuilt Oak Heights, and will remain unoccupied for the duration of demolition and construction of the new middle school, according to this project's RFQ.

The district announced last month it had chosen Cornerstone General Contractors of Bothell as the general contractor/construction manager for a $210 million, two-school replacement project in Lynnwood, College Place Middle School, and College Place Elementary School, the biggest project funded by February's bond.

Also included in the bond is an $85 million replacement of Westgate Elementary School on its current site at 9601 220th St. S.W. in Edmonds, $90 million to expedite construction work already underway at Oak Heights, and $35 million for upgrades and projects across the district.

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