Houston: Linbeck YES Prep Charter School expansion news

​HOUSTON – Linbeck Group has completed YES Prep Southside and phase three of YES Prep Gulfton. The total cost for both school projects is $12.3 million.

The ten-acre YES Prep Southside, located at 5515 South Loop East, occupies the former Levitz Furniture Store’s 162,000-sf showroom and warehouse. 

The site required adaptive reuse for a three-phase project, which included the school, a home office and empty space reserved for future expansion. 

The first phase included the completion of the 83,406-sf school serving 1,100 students grades 6–12. The facility boasts 35 classrooms, labs for music, science and art, a library, cafeteria with seating for 600 students, and a gymnasium.