The Olive Branch Planning Commission voted to approve DeSoto County Schools’ application for a new Career Tech East campus to be built on Craft Road just north of Church Road, city officials said.
The site is planned just west of the Olive Branch Soccer Fields at the George Harrison Soccer Complex and adjacent to the Lick Creek Conservancy, the announcement said. The school district’s application describes the facility as featuring modern classrooms, tennis courts and a track.
City officials said construction is already underway on a wide walking and biking trail that will connect the new soccer complex west to Ross Road South, with future plans to extend the trail east to Craft Road and north to the Career Tech East campus to create a continuous recreational and access corridor…