The development of a new public elementary school designed to amalgamate three others in Saskatoon’s core neighbourhoods is years behind schedule.
When the Princess Alexandra School on Avenue H was torn down at the end of the 2022 school year, officials hoped to open a new facility in its place by 2025 — one that would serve the communities of Riversdale, Pleasant Hill and King George.
Today, the lot still sits untouched.
The superintendent of facilities for Saskatoon Public Schools, Stan Laba, says ground-breaking was expected to have happened already, but various delays pushed the project back.
“It has been a bit of a slog, given the, the scope and the partners and, and the site selection and all that kind of front end stuff that we had to work through,” Laba told CTV News.
Anticipated capital partners pulled out, leaving the public school board as the sole capital investor.