The Westchester County Local Development Corporation recently approved $26.5 million in tax-exempt bond financing for a construction and renovation project due to start this month at the Upper Campus of Rippowam Cisqua School in Bedford.
The 22,000-square-foot project will create approximately 150 to 200 construction jobs and retain approximately 195 full-time and part-time jobs, according to the office of Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino.
Local Development Corp. directors at their May 26 meeting approved bond financing for both project costs and $6 million in mortgage refinancing for Rippowam Cisqua, a coeducational, independent country day school founded in 1917.
The project on the middle school campus includes a new library and media center, innovation center, arts classrooms and science labs, a new dining hall, and an outdoor amphitheater. Construction is expected to be completed in approximately 15 months.
Rippowam Cisqua Head of School Colm MacMahon said in a press release that the new Bedford campus “will bring tremendous teaching and learning spaces to the community. We are excited about this project because we know how important middle school is to education, and having an environment that is specifically designed and sized for middle- school-aged students.”
Rippowam Cisqua School teaches students in pre-kindergarten through ninth grade at its campuses in Bedford and Mount Kisco.
