Grapevine City Council approved special permits for these items at its Dec. 17 meeting.
The school, located at 729 E. Dallas Road, Grapevine, made three separate requests of the council. The first was for the baseball field and included stadium lighting and parking lot modifications.
The second was for the softball field and an outdoor STEAM educational classroom area to the north of the softball field. STEAM education is an approach that uses science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics.
“Right now it’s dead space to us,” the school’s President Edward Smith Jr. said of the space for the STEAM area to the council.
Smith showed a few renderings of the STEAM center, which included a small outdoor performing arts center and an elementary art classroom with a glass door that can roll up and down to create an indoor and outdoor area for students.
The third request related to an industrial area the school owns and the use of that for additional parking.
With the permits approved, Smith said the baseball field would likely be the first project to get underway.
“The rest [of the projects] depends on parent interest and what they’re willing to help fund,” Smith said.
