GREENVILLE - School officials moved forward with plans for a new athletic complex for Greenville-Weston High School.

Ryan Ashford of JBHM Architects got the go-ahead Tuesday from the Greenville School District Board of Trustees for the first phase, with a price of $8.4 million.

The proposal includes a 51,000-square-foot building, housing a gymnasium and practice facilities for football, basketball and track. Those facilities would include a half-length footbal field, restrooms, locker rooms, coaches' facilities, a weight room and a meeting room. The gymnasium will accommodate 1,700 people - 1,200 on the home side and 500 on the visitor's side, with movable bleachers on the visitor's side and fixed bleachers on the home side. The building will be located on the south end of the Charles S. Kerg Field.

-- Delta Democrat Times, December 13, 2007