This reminds me of the construction site near our building in Co-op City when I was about 9 or 10! They took years to build the "education complex" with Harry S. Truman High School in the center of it, and I used to explore the rubble they left around in the field. The finished product (by 1979) was pretty cool, though! We had a planetarium, and in the basement were all the gymnasiums (boys' gymnastics with a trampoline!) and TWO inground swimming pools! The only bad part was they made us change in front of each other in the boys' locker room and shower there naked. One kid--I will never forget this--took my towel and dried himself, leaving me with a wet towel and water falling from me. When we got to 9th Grade, we had Math the very next period after gym, and when the student elevator broke down, we had to huff it--up 9 flights of steps! The moron math teacher told us to go back to the gym teacher for a pass, and naturally, we just cut math class. After the first two days, the idiot realized what he was doing and told us to just sit down!