Story Created:
Mar 9, 2010
Story Updated:
Mar 9, 2010
Laredo Community College is expanding their fort MacIntosh Campus through a two phase, multi-million dollar project.
The two year project calls for a new three story, sixteen million dollar academic building, a visual and performing arts center for eleven million...
It also includes a three-point-seven million dollars in upgrades to Moore Hall, plus the remodeling of several of the historical buildings on campus.
L.C.C. Officials say the project will allow for up to an additional two thousand students to be enrolled and will modernize many of the older buildings.
Dr. Juan Maldonado\LCC PRESIDENT "The key component of the whole retrofitting of facilities in this...is t to bring LCC to a stage in it's technological foundation to allow it to be read for the learning environment of today and tomorrow."
Two builders are currently being considered.
That's Leyendecker Construction and Spawglass, an out of town contractor.
A committee will be meeting to decide between the two and will present their choice to the board on Thursday.
