Consulting engineer, real estate broker tour possible school site

January 26, 2013 | 8:05 p.m. CST

Dave Bennett, left, a consulting engineer with Columbia Public Schools, and John John, a Columbia real estate broker, inspect a 34-acre site Saturday. The site in southwest Columbia is one of three being considered as the possible location of a 600-student elementary school slated to open in 2016. Bennett, John and members of the Columbia Public Schools Long-range Facilities Planning Committee took a bus tour of three sites in southwest Columbia on Saturday.