The college’s Midtown Center will be growing and relocating after SPC’s Board of Trustees approved plans for a new facility in St. Petersburg on Tuesday and budgeted $14-million for the project.
Construction is scheduled to begin in May and will take about a year to complete.
“The area to be served is one of the richest for 15-35 year olds in the county,” President Bill Law said.
Kevin Gordon, Provost at the Downtown and Midtown sites, said Midtown enrollment is only 8 to 10 percent of the eligible students within a five-mile radius. At most of the college’s other locations it is 12 to 16 percent.
Headcount this fall at Midtown is 457 students.
“This new campus is a very visible sign of the college’s commitment to increasing educational opportunities for all those who need it, but with particular emphasis on reaching young, African-American males,” Gordon said.
Gordon said he was especially proud of the fact that the college “is doing what it always said it would do. It started with a Collaborative Lab last November and now we’re ready to go.”
The three-story, 45,000-square foot building will be built on land leased from the city at 22nd Street and 13th Avenue South and will quadruple the size of the campus.
Board member Terry Brett spoke about his longtime efforts to improve the economic opportunities in Midtown and he urged the college to look for local contractors and do everything it can within the law to use local general contractors and local, minority sub- contractors. At next month’s meeting, each board member will nominate a community person to serve in an advisory capacity on the committee that recommends contractors.
Board Chairman Deveron Gibbons, a strong supporter of this effort, was appreciative of the hard work that has gone into the project thus far. “Dr Law, Dr. Duncan (Doug, Senior Vice President Administrative/Business Services and Information Technology) and Dr. Gordon and their staffs all did a great job of getting this done,” Gibbons said. “Thank you.”
This is the the video. The Midtown discussion begins at the 32:50 mark. Here is a link to the PowerPoint presentation
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