McCarthy Building Companies is Constructing a New High School in Rancho Mirage, CA for Palm Springs Unified School District

RANCHO MIRAGE, CA — McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. www.mccarthy.com, one of the premier school builders in the U.S., is constructing the $99.3 million high school in Rancho Mirage for Palm Springs Unified School District (PSUSD).

The 332,000-square-foot high school  (top left rendering) is being constructed on 60 plus acres near DaVall Drive and Ramon Road in the city of Rancho Mirage.

“The new 2,200 student capacity high school will alleviate overcrowding from other high schools in the district,” said Mike Sattley, PSUSD project manager. “Plus, constructing in the current economic climate is cost effective,” he added. 

Funding for the school is provided by local Bond Measures E and T. The school was also provided with a $3 million grant from the California Career Technical Education Program for construction of the culinary kitchen, multimedia/video classroom and mechanic/transportation lab.

Sattley added, “The District and McCarthy have been working well together on the high school, and the project is moving forward as scheduled.”

Serving as general contractor for the buildings and site package as well as construction manager for the offsite package, McCarthy recently completed mass grading and is currently constructing the underground site utilities and the building foundations. Sattley said he expects the structural steel portion of the buildings to be topped-out by mid-2011.

Contact: 

Laura Mickelson (LM Communication), (949) 453-0851,

Susan Garritano (McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.), (314) 968-3300