Educational Service District 112 plans to build a new office on 5.25 acres at the old Evergreen Airport site along Southeast Mill Plain Boulevard at 136th Avenue. ESD 112 paid $1.8 million for the parcel in October 2013, said Tim Merlino, chief fiscal officer at ESD 112.
Construction is expected to begin in late 2015 or early 2016. Estimated construction cost is between $16 million and $20 million, he said.
Since 1992 ,ESD 112 has been leasing its current space, three buildings with a total of 83,000 square feet at 2500 N.E. 65th Ave. The lease ends June 30, 2017. By then, the organization will have been at its current site for 25 years. It is the only ESD in the state that leases property, Merlino said.
“We’re in the planning stages of what we want it to look like and what we want to build,” Merlino said. “We have a construction manager on staff. We’re getting together with all our managers to do some future forecasting to determine what kinds of programs we’ll have and what people’s needs will be.”
ESD 112 provides an array of support services to schools in six Southwest Washington counties. It also operates the Southwest Washington Child Care Consortium.
