Westport ShorelinesShorelines eastbayri.com THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2017 VOL. 23, NO. 13 $.75 Walking of the bulls III MICHAEL S. GORDON PHOTO, COURTESY OF MASSLIVE.COM. A look inside Longmeadow High School. Dueling school designs brings price cuts ‘Custom’ design plan drops well below $94M earlier estimate If one idea behind introducing a sec- ond option for a new Westport school was to find savings, that effort appears to be paying dividends. Last week, backers of both the initial Westport ‘custom designed’ plan and the more recently introduced ‘model school’ option, based on the recently built Long- meadow, Mass., High School, got the chance to pitch their plans. In the process came surprise announcements of considerable cost reductions. Jonathan Levi, the architect who pro- duced the custom design, said that the JIM MCGAW grade 6-12 school his firm has designed “Old bull” Chuck Copley of Little Compton, left, and “young bull” Mike Jupin of Westport make their way down Adamsville Road on Friday, can be be built for between $78 million St. Patrick’s Day, on the first leg of their 11-plus mile walking challenge. and $83 million, including demolition of the old middle school and inclusion of a larger gym. Old bull vs. young bull St. Patty’s long walk ends in tie That’s a drop of nearly $16 million from what had earlier been described as BY BRUCE BURDETT their St. Patrick’s Day Old Bull vs. Young Bull There, “We paused for a cold one then a $94 million project. It also puts the
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