Tacoma’s Landmarks Preservation Commission will be out in the community next week as it visits historic Stewart Middle School.

The site visit will allow commissioners to be briefed on a proposed $58 million renovation of the 90-year-old building, which was placed on Tacoma’s historic register in 2010. According to Tacoma Public Schools officials, the ‘modernization’ project is scheduled to begin in May 2015, and to be completed by September 2017.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission site visit is scheduled to occur on Weds., April 16, at 5:30 p.m., at Stewart Middle School, located at 5010 Pacific Ave. The public notice is available online here.

To read the Tacoma Daily Index‘s complete and comprehensive coverage of Tacoma’s historic schools, click on the following links:

• Tacoma Public Schools Planning & Construction Department REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL/ (Tacoma Daily Index, October 15, 2013)
• Historic preservationists deem McKinley Elementary School endangered (Tacoma Daily Index, October 14, 2013)
• Preservationists seek to landmark 3 Tacoma school buildings (Tacoma Daily Index, June 21, 2012)
• City honors historic preservation leaders: Tacoma Public Schools, Wedge residents among award recipients (Tacoma Daily Index, June 3, 2011)
• Year In Review — Tacoma’s Historic Schools (Tacoma Daily Index, December 20, 2010)
• 6 Tacoma schools added to historic register (Tacoma Daily Index, December 8, 2010)
• Tacoma City Council to vote on 6 historic school nominations (Tacoma Daily Index, December 2, 2010)
• Public hearing Oct. 27 for 6 historic school nominations (Tacoma Daily Index, October 18, 2010)
• 6 Tacoma schools move closer to historic landmark status (Tacoma Daily Index, September 22, 2010)
• 6 Tacoma schools headed for historic register (Tacoma Daily Index, July 26, 2010)
• 3 Tacoma schools receive federal grants (Tacoma Daily Index, April 27, 2010)
• Tacoma’s historic schools inventory nears completion (Tacoma Daily Index, April 23, 2010)
• Survey could help preserve Tacoma’s oldest public schools (Tacoma Daily Index, October 28, 2008)