Sunday, August 16, 2015

New Dekalb Elementary School Opens With Dead Landscape

The new Peachcrest Elementary School opened its doors last week to students. At this time, the facility was not complete; workers continued to park along the street, leaving only one lane for traffic as they scrambled to finish the final detail work on the building and grounds.

What stands out like a sore thumb, however, is that over half of the landscape plants-trees, shrubs and sod, are dead. That's right, DEAD. This is not the first time I've seen dead or dying plants installed at new facilities in Dekalb. Many of the trees planted at the new Exchange Park in South Dekalb were clearly dead or diseased.

How many of our tax dollars were used to provide dead and dying plants to the new Peachcrest Elementary School. Is this yet another member of the "Friends and Family Job Network" that we are all so familiar with? I would like to know. Following are photos of the school that just opened last week.