The vocational building trades class doesn’t plan to build a house this year. The house built last year didn’t sell over the summer and if it doesn’t within the next few weeks, the teacher, John Coghlan, expects the class won’t build one at all this year.

“We haven’t sold last year’s house. The real estate market is slow. Our board of advisers doesn’t want to start another house while one is for sale,” Coghlan said.

According to Coghlan, the class will act like renovators for different projects if the house doesn’t sell. “We are going to be working with Carmel Parks Department on a couple of projects,” Coghlan said.

The plan is to do some maintenance and redo three structures at Flowing Well Park on 116th Street and Grey Road. Coghlan expects this project to take a few weeks. Another project the class might do is a paver patio for a customer.

Coghlan said the class will still be residential construction and there might even be positives to not building a house like last year.

“We are able to do other things we couldn’t last year because we were always so busy,” Coghlan said.

Senior Kevin van Hoorde was in the class last year as well as this year. He thinks some of the seniors will be disappointed they won’t be able to build a house, but van Hoorde isn’t too disappointed. “I feel bad for (the seniors),” van Hoorde said, “I already have done it.”