The $11 million expansion of Lansing Community College’s (LCC) University Center was finished at the end of 2007 and is expected to have a 215 car parking lot added to the side by the time school starts.
The new parking lot should be complete by Aug. 20.
Originally, LCC was looking at buying an existing ramp from the City of Lansing, but the purchase was not approved. The community college is hopeful that a permanent parking solution that could also include additional classroom space, will be reached.
“Instead of committing the land where the University Center is for a ramp for the short term, we wanted to put a surface lot there,” says Chris Struger-Fritsch, director of LCC’s Administrative Services Division. “Then we can look at new parking on Shiawassee and Washington that would have classroom space as well.”
The $11 million, 40,478 square foot University Center project is home to universities from all over the state and offer and master’s degrees for LCC students. The new building also has computer labs, laptops, observation classrooms, a student lounge and seminar rooms.
Source: Chris Struger-Fritsch, LCC
Ivy Hughes is the managing editor of Capital Gains and can be reached here.
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