Foundations For The Future
In 1999, school officials announced their expansion plans to add a two-story, 18,690-square-foot (1,736 m2) building that would house administrative offices, classrooms and a state-of-the-art media center. The following year, the Seminole city council changed the school's unincorporated status with Pinellas County, annexing it into Seminole city limits. At a Seminole city council meeting in July 2000, neighbors of the school aired their grievances concerning the expansion. They argued the proposed building would change the look of the neighborhood and generate more traffic and noise. This council meeting, however, was not to discuss the school's expansion but to decide its request for rezoning it from residential status to public/semipublic status. The re-designation was granted after tough debate. In 2001, Keswick officials scrapped the plan for the large, two-story building; instead, minor modifications were made, such as installing a fence on the grounds along 54th Avenue, building a paved running track, improving drainage and paving dirt parking lots.
Despite the false start of sorts, Keswick did embark on a three-year capital campaign called Foundations for the Future in 2003, the fiftieth anniversary of the school. The $4.5 million campaign was completed in 2007. Highlights of the campaign include a new 23,000-square-foot (2,100 m2) senior high school building; a refurbished preschool and new two-year old program; and a relocated junior high building.
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