Space is tight at reopened tech center

CANFIELD — Space is tight at the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center, but school reopened smoothly Tuesday despite a devastating fire last spring, Superintendent Roan Craig said.

The May 4 fire began in a multimedia lab and ruined the northwest wing of the tech center’s main building on Palmyra Road. Now, the school is working with 38,000 less square feet, Craig said. The center includes one other building.

The school had 220,000 square feet to begin with. “One hundred-eighty thousand is still a great number,” she said. But, she acknowledged, space is maxed out.

“We’ve used every inch of space, but we fit everyone in and don’t need portable classrooms.”

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