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Phase One:
Floodplain Development and Front Lawn Redesign

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Latest Phase One News:

• 03/05/2004: First Flood
  For the first time since phase one was begun, the Caney River inundated the east parking lot, practice fields, and Haley Lab in one its regular "five-year" floods. There is a snapshot of the parking area with light poles, a trash can, and the trees in the Haley Lab sticking up out of the water. Another snapshot looks north down Shawnee. Students were offered parking downtown in the ConocoPhillips lots, with a bus to transport them to and from BHS before and after school.
• January, 2004: Haley Plaque
  The original dedication plaque for the John C. Haley Environmental Laboratory has been remounted on a stone near the pond, along with a new plaque regarding the lab re-development.

The first phase of the project redeveloped a floodplain acreage east of Shawnee Avenue. The front lawn along Hillcrest Drive was also redesigned.

If you have a broadband connection (or plenty of patience if using a dialup link), the above map includes red "Photo Spots" you can click to see PixAround Viewpoints. These are photographs with viewpoints you can move and zoom. Shots of the phase one areas are being taken before, during, and after construction.

PixAround Viewpoints for Phase One:

• top of the stadium press box
• Shawnee Avenue near Custer Field
• 18th Street and Shawnee Avenue
• old auditorium roof
• 18th Street and Hillcrest
• new Haley Environmental Lab
• southeast corner of floodplain

(Other photos and movies of phase one are available.)

Phase One Description:

Original Budgeting: $1.7 million for practice fields (7% of the project funding)
Designed and bid in 2001;
Contract awarded to Oakridge Builders, Inc. of Tulsa;
Groundbreaking January 28, 2002; Completion Fall, 2002

The land east of Shawnee was purchased in the 1970's for the John C. Haley Environmental Laboratory. That property was re-developed into:

• two soccer/football practice fields
• baseball practice field
• softball practice field
• 600-space parking lot
• revised Haley Environmental Lab

Before this phase BHS had no practice fields for soccer, baseball and softball, so those teams had to travel each day during the season to other schools or community facilities, requiring school transportation and consuming practice time. Parking on campus was very limited, and the construction of the new Fine Arts Center removed the main student parking lot. The Haley Lab had always been difficult to access, had become overgrown, and its old pond was quite small.

The new practice fields helped those sports. The new parking lot expanded total parking space and also could accommodate bus parking during sports activities. A new larger pond was constructed in one corner of the parcel for a new Haley Lab, and additional land further to the east was acquired to expand the Lab.

The old on-street parking along Hillcrest Drive in front of the school was eliminated. It was replaced by two protected parking lots and a large central drive for passenger drop-off and buses. This improved access and also expanded the campus parking. Before the project began, there were only 569 parking spaces, but after all four phases of the project are finished there will be approximately 1,000 spaces on campus.

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