Groundbreaking set next month on Owensboro college’s center

OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) – Ground is scheduled to be broken next month on the final phase of Owensboro Community & Technical College’s long-delayed Advanced Technology Center.

The Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer (http://bit.ly/1WllPVZ) reports a ceremony is scheduled March 4 in Owensboro for the center that is scheduled to open for classes in fall 2017.

The project was first proposed in 1996 when community leaders asked then-Gov. Paul Patton for funding. But construction didn’t begin until 2006 on the project’s 65,000-square-foot first phase and it was completed two years later.

The $12 million second phase of the project required $3 million in local funding, plus $500,000 for equipment. College President Scott Williams says nearly $163,000 in donations are still needed. Most of the new 46,000-square-foot building will be for labs, classrooms and offices.

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Information from: Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer, http://www.messenger-inquirer.com

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