2008 Woodie Awards
Construction rumbles forward during fall 2006 at LPC
David Frock
Issue date: 9/1/06 Section: News
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Las Positas College is rushing forward into Fall 2006 with construction and maintenance repair activities continuing around the campus.
Improvements are being made by the Chabot-Las Positas College district to provide better and larger facilities for a 92 percent anticipated jump in future attendance of full time equivalent students (FTES) at LPC by 2020.
While aging buildings are getting needed repairs, new buildings and facilities are being planned and implemented all around campus at ever quickening speeds.
The Measure B Bond project was voter approved in March of 2004 and is the source for the new construction activities. Measure B includes $498,000,000 (roughly half a billion in cash!) for a five to ten year plan to renovate and reconstruct both campuses. The improvements at Los Positas are estimated by the college district to bring down roughly $235,000,000 of the Measure B budget into the new and existing LPC structures. Measure B itself is a complex repair and building plan that encompasses nearly all aspects of the massive planning, voting, oversight, hiring, designing, and building that is occurring at this time.
The eventual landscape of LPC will be twice as large than it is today with new parking lots to the east and southwestern sides of campus and huge athletic fields north and south of the Upper Loop Road.
Additionally, nine new buildings totaling 260,000 new square feet of space, compared to the pre-renovation square footage of roughly 225,000 square feet, will be added.
LPC will have a world-class Aquatic Center with two huge pools located next to the new gymnasium. Along the Aquatic Center will be two new full regulation synthetic turf soccer fields, one lighted for night play. The pools and fields are scheduled to be completed together by Dec. 2007.
Much anticipated by student parents is a long awaited Child Development Center (CDC). The CDC will have childcare facilities along with classrooms and will be located in the current library parking lot. Construction is set to begin in Feb. 2008 and end 13 months later in March 2009.
Improvements are being made by the Chabot-Las Positas College district to provide better and larger facilities for a 92 percent anticipated jump in future attendance of full time equivalent students (FTES) at LPC by 2020.
While aging buildings are getting needed repairs, new buildings and facilities are being planned and implemented all around campus at ever quickening speeds.
The Measure B Bond project was voter approved in March of 2004 and is the source for the new construction activities. Measure B includes $498,000,000 (roughly half a billion in cash!) for a five to ten year plan to renovate and reconstruct both campuses. The improvements at Los Positas are estimated by the college district to bring down roughly $235,000,000 of the Measure B budget into the new and existing LPC structures. Measure B itself is a complex repair and building plan that encompasses nearly all aspects of the massive planning, voting, oversight, hiring, designing, and building that is occurring at this time.
The eventual landscape of LPC will be twice as large than it is today with new parking lots to the east and southwestern sides of campus and huge athletic fields north and south of the Upper Loop Road.
Additionally, nine new buildings totaling 260,000 new square feet of space, compared to the pre-renovation square footage of roughly 225,000 square feet, will be added.
LPC will have a world-class Aquatic Center with two huge pools located next to the new gymnasium. Along the Aquatic Center will be two new full regulation synthetic turf soccer fields, one lighted for night play. The pools and fields are scheduled to be completed together by Dec. 2007.
Much anticipated by student parents is a long awaited Child Development Center (CDC). The CDC will have childcare facilities along with classrooms and will be located in the current library parking lot. Construction is set to begin in Feb. 2008 and end 13 months later in March 2009.
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