Tolleson school district breaks ground on 90,000-square-foot training and learning center

The Tolleson Union High School District broke ground Friday on a new 90,000-square-foot Training and Learning Center. The site, on 99th Avenue, just north of Camelback Road, is expected to be completed by spring 2027.

Superintendent Jeremy Calles said the new building will house a family resource center that connects parents to social services.

“It'll have a demo kitchen so we can do cooking classes with parents," Calles said. "It's going to have a library area, a teen area, a child area. So it's a complete family resource center that's going to be on the first floor of this building.”

It will also serve as the new home of the district’s distance learning academy.

“Those teachers have been teaching out of these portable buildings that should have been demolished many years ago," Calles said. "We're going to finally get them a more permanent structure and more suitable environment for providing online instruction.”

The project has a price tag of $65 million that’s being paid for by a bond. The district is also working on a partnership with St. Mary's Food Bank to hopefully offer food distributions at the new resource center.

The groundbreaking comes just two weeks after the district started construction on its new high school in Avondale.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Due to an editing error, the headline has been updated to correct the name of the training and learning center.