Texas high school to build multi-million-dollar meat lab

By Chris Scott on 1/14/2014

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Education officials in Longview, Texas, unanimously approved a plan to build a $2.23 million meat-processing lab on property just north of Longview High School, according to local media reports.

The facility will give students the opportunity to learn how to cut and age meat and help prepare them to become butchers or foodservice managers after high school. School officials believe the facility will also offer the chance for students who go on to college to take their experience to large processing companies as a career.

The local contractor who won the contract is expected to complete the facility in time for the 2014-2015 school year, The Longview ISD Board of Trustees decided to spend an extra $182,000 on the project above the lowest bid in order to give the work to local contractor RLM General Contractors.