No bids for Naperville home renovated by Dist. 203 students
Not even Naperville Unit District 203 is immune to the depressed housing market.
The district failed to receive a single bid by the Sept. 15 deadline for the final home remodeled by students in its building trades program. The district will now put the house at 212 Basswood Drive on the market with the help of a licensed real estate broker.
Several dozen students from Naperville North and Naperville Central high schools have been remodeling the home since October 2009. They completed the renovations this summer.
“It was a complete renovation of a house there on Basswood. They stripped it down to the studs to redo a lot of the work on the inside,” Assistant Superintendent of Instruction Tim Wierenga said. “We like for the students to look at the entire process of construction so they were able to do everything from flooring to Sheetrock to plumbing.”
Students would work in daily two-hour shifts and be bused to and from the three-bedroom, two-bath home south of downtown Naperville.
The house is the last to be built through the building trades program. When classes resume this week, students will take programs through the Technical Center of DuPage in Addison. But it's unlikely they'll be building or remodeling homes.
Earlier this summer, Superintendent Mark Mitrovich purchased a previous building trades home for a bid of $550,000.