Lehigh Valley Charter HS for the Arts’ new building on East Third Street is open for school this week, with the official ribbon-cutting ceremony scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.

School administrators, staff, local officials and community members who have long supported the school’s expansion from the old East Broad Street factory building it once inhabited will attend.

The ceremony is expected to begin at 3 p.m. at 321 E. Third Street.

The $26 million, 87,000-square-foot structure was designed by Southside group Artefact, Inc. and built by Bethlehem-based Bucks Development. It will provide educational space for 650 students, and includes a 350-seat theater, a 200-seat performance hall, a rooftop venue, art galleries, laboratories, a library and recording studio.