Published: Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Skills Center reorganizes after fire
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Dan Bates / The Herald
Firefighters spray water on a fire that destroyed a Sno-Isle Skills Center building on Airport Road in Everett in May.
EVERETT — The popular student-run Le Bistro restaurant off Airport Road won’t be open to diners next year.
Le Bistro is one of six Sno-Isle Tech Skills Center programs that are being moved off campus this fall after fire destroyed the building the programs occupied last May. The classes will be taught in business office space at Paine Field this year.
The fire is not the reason for the Le Bistro closure, however. The restaurant was part of a larger remodeling project on the campus and was scheduled to be closed for the year, school officials said. Sno-Isle is operated by the Mukilteo School District.
The skills center will continue to offer culinary arts training for the high school juniors and seniors but they won’t be able to run the restaurant this year, Muntz said.
Supporters of the restaurant hope it will re-open by October 2010.
The building was being remodeled when a spark ignited a fire on the roof. Plans now are under way to redesign the building, which has been leveled.
It’s still unclear how much money will be spent on rebuilding.
“They are still haggling with insurance companies,” Muntz said.
The Sno-Isle Skills Center offers 19 different technical programs for students from 14 different school districts throughout Snohomish County. Last year, it was home to 836 students who split their day between the center and their high schools.
The fire occurred when workers were beginning a $8.8 million project to expand and remodel Sno-Isle classrooms.
Construction will significantly change the face of the campus, with 23,000 square feet of new construction and 26,000 feet of remodelled classroom space.
Seven new programs are being added, including classes for aircraft service technician training, auto body collision repair, low-voltage electrical work, DigiPen game programming and courses that will explore solar and environmental energy. A cosmetology program will be moved to the campus from another site.
Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446, stevick@heraldnet.com.
Le Bistro is one of six Sno-Isle Tech Skills Center programs that are being moved off campus this fall after fire destroyed the building the programs occupied last May. The classes will be taught in business office space at Paine Field this year.
The fire is not the reason for the Le Bistro closure, however. The restaurant was part of a larger remodeling project on the campus and was scheduled to be closed for the year, school officials said. Sno-Isle is operated by the Mukilteo School District.
The skills center will continue to offer culinary arts training for the high school juniors and seniors but they won’t be able to run the restaurant this year, Muntz said.
Supporters of the restaurant hope it will re-open by October 2010.
The building was being remodeled when a spark ignited a fire on the roof. Plans now are under way to redesign the building, which has been leveled.
It’s still unclear how much money will be spent on rebuilding.
“They are still haggling with insurance companies,” Muntz said.
The Sno-Isle Skills Center offers 19 different technical programs for students from 14 different school districts throughout Snohomish County. Last year, it was home to 836 students who split their day between the center and their high schools.
The fire occurred when workers were beginning a $8.8 million project to expand and remodel Sno-Isle classrooms.
Construction will significantly change the face of the campus, with 23,000 square feet of new construction and 26,000 feet of remodelled classroom space.
Seven new programs are being added, including classes for aircraft service technician training, auto body collision repair, low-voltage electrical work, DigiPen game programming and courses that will explore solar and environmental energy. A cosmetology program will be moved to the campus from another site.
Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446, stevick@heraldnet.com.
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