Work underway on the new $173M Newark University High School

A new school is coming to Newark today. City officials revealed plans for the new Newark University High School. News 12 New Jersey's Jack Ford was there and shows us what's planned and when students will make the move. This plot on the corner of Dewey and Hawthorne in Newark's South Ward is just dirt and pavement now, but it's the starting point for a new future for over 1,000 high schoolers in the city. The first step of the journey to opening a new high school facility that will have educational spaces and resources to help students become college and career ready in the years ahead. The new North University High School, the $173 million investment funded by the New Jersey School Development Authority, will see the construction of a 198,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility here. It's set to open in the fall of 2029, but after this initial site clearing is complete, taking out pavement and remaining foundation, construction is planned to start as early as next fall. But But it's a timeline the Newark Public Schools superintendent says goes back a bit further. I was principal of this high school in 2006 when this school, this new school, was supposed to be built. So to see it being realized 20 years later as superintendent of schools, well, it's been a long time coming. This project is not tearing down the old building. That's still to be determined. But once the work is done here, students from the current Newark University High School will be calling this building home. In Newark, Jack Ford, News 12 New Jersey.