On a tour of the nearly completed new Watertown High School, a group saw classrooms that look ready to host classes, along with some of the gems of the new building: the gymnasium, the auditorium, and a two-story media center (a.k.a. the library).
Christy Murphy of owner project management firm Vertex gave an update on the status of the project before the group toured the building.
“We are about 97% complete, that’s in dollars, but there’s a lot of details (left). So, as we’re walking around, you’re going to see spaces that are shockingly done — some furniture’s here — finishes,” Murphy said. “And then you’re going to see other places with ceilings open, because we’re balancing or working on something else.”
The building has turned out the way the designers and school officials hoped. It impressed outsiders who know a thing or two about school projects, said Paul Anastasi, a member of the School Building Committee and a retired school facilities director in Newton and Watertown…