Grace Baptist Academy
Chattanooga, Tennessee
After a tornado wiped out the entire campus in spring of 2020, Breedlove Land Planning(BLP) was brought in to assist with the +/-$45 million campus rebuild. The campus rebuild included an elementary building, an upper school, a church, a daycare, athletic facilities and a series of outdoor gathering spaces/classrooms. BLP offered sportsfield design services for the recreation of all campus athletic facilities including baseball, softball, football/soccer multi-use field and the mid-way practice field. All fields are designed for synthetic turf.
BLP also provided landscape architecture services for the campus. This included three packages – code required plans, campus wide planting plans, and athletic facilities and a courtyard package. The courtyards packages included the design of outdoor learning spaces across the campus: an outdoor amphitheater, a working garden plaza complete with farm to table learning opportunities, an outdoor science lab, a performing arts courtyard which doubles as the outdoor dining plaza adjacent to the cafeteria, and a lower school outdoor classroom. The campus redesign also included the addition of multiple playground areas to support the church and various grade levels at the lower school.