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Students use shovels for dirt at groundbreaking ceremony

Donald Eismann Elementary Improvements

New: Parking & traffic updates

A split image shows a completed parking lot on the left and a large pile of gravel with construction equipment on the right, with project details below.

The 2024 bond included funding for improvements to Donald Eismann Elementary, including a new turf field with lighting and upgrades to traffic circulating and parking. 

Current Status: Construction

Project details:

  • Adding multi-use synthetic turf field facilities for students/community
  • Installing field lighting
  • Constructing parking stalls and improving traffic circulation facilities

Timeline:

  • Planning, design & permitting: 2025-2026
  • Construction: Begins May 2026
  • Estimated completion: Fall 2026

Budget: 

  • $7.8 million

Project Team

Civil Engineer: Ethos Civil

Landscape Architect: KG Designs

Electrical Engineer: Tres West Engineers

General Construction: Premier Field Development

Gallery

A newly paved parking lot with white lines and a few cars in the foreground is adjacent to an older, tree-filled parking lot with more cars in the background.

The newly paved parking an queuing lot at Donald Eismann Elementary

In the foreground, a roller compacts a large pile of gray gravel, while in the background, a suburban neighborhood with houses and trees is visible.

Work continues on the turf field construction at Donald Eismann

Newly painted accessible parking spaces with blue wheelchair symbols are in the foreground, with a brick and siding school building in the background.

Accessibility stalls are added at the Donald Eismann parking lot

A group of people in hard hats stand behind a pile of dirt, holding shovels, with construction equipment and trees in the background.
A construction site sign stands in the foreground with shovels and hard hats ready for a groundbreaking ceremony, while heavy machinery and trees are visible in the background.
Children and adults in hard hats stand with shovels in a pile of dirt in the foreground, while construction equipment and trees are visible in the background under a cloudy sky.
A yellow bulldozer and an orange excavator work on a dirt construction site in the foreground, with a building and trees under a cloudy sky in the background.
Two girls stand in the foreground looking at an excavator working on a construction site in the background under a cloudy sky.
A construction site with a modular building in the foreground and a treeline in the background under a cloudy sky.
The image of a site plan layout of improved fields and parking with a green area with various markings and labels, surrounded by a white background.

Site plan of fields and parking at Donald Eismann Elementary

A group of people gather under tents in a grassy area with a construction site and yellow machinery in the background.
Children in hard hats and adults stand in a dirt field with shovels, ready to break ground, with trees and a cloudy sky in the background.
A yellow bulldozer and an orange excavator sit on a dirt construction site in the foreground, with a line of ceremonial shovels topped with white hard hats planted in mounds of dirt, and a line of trees under a cloudy sky in the background.
Children in hard hats and a woman stand in the foreground with shovels in dirt, while an excavator is visible in the background.
Six people in hard hats hold shovels in a pile of dirt in the foreground, with construction equipment and trees in the background.
A group of seven people in hard hats stand behind a pile of dirt, holding shovels, with construction equipment and trees in the background.
Children in hard hats dig into a pile of dirt in the foreground, while adults and construction equipment are visible in the blurred background.
A group of people in hard hats are digging into a pile of dirt in the foreground, with construction equipment and trees visible in the background.
Four children in hard hats hold shovels with blue bows in the foreground, while a yellow bulldozer and construction site are visible in the background.
Parking lot from above

Current congestion at Donald Eismann Elementary

Students run on field

Students run on field at DEE prior to construction.

Watch the Ground Breaking Ceremony

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2024 Bond Projects

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Rosters, Notices & Bids

Capital Projects Department

Reports & Presentations

2016 Bond Projects

Questions?

Contact us at construction@sumnersd.org.