Groundbreaking for Downtown Higher Ed Center

I’ve copied and pasted the Times-News announcement for the Ground Breaking of the Higher Ed Center forwarded by Jeff Fleming’s posting.

” GROUNDBREAKING
Kingsport Center for Higher Education
July 7
10 a.m.
300 West Market Street
Downtown Kingsport

Source: Times-News

KINGSPORT — Northeast State Technical Community College and the city of Kingsport will host a groundbreaking ceremony for the Kingsport Center for Higher Education at 10 a.m. Monday, July 7.

The 54,000-square-foot building will be constructed at the corner of Clay and Market streets on the site of the former Tire Center in downtown Kingsport. The structure will feature a 200-seat auditorium, two lecture halls, multiple classrooms and physical science laboratories.

The city of Kingsport is funding land acquisition and building costs of the project. Construction is expected to be completed in fall 2009.

KCHE will be managed by Northeast State, which will offer two years of college instruction. King College of Bristol, the University of Tennessee of Knoxville, Carson-Newman College of Jefferson City and Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate have committed to be participating institutions offering baccalaureate degrees in specific majors.

The center is part of the Kingsport Academic Village, which includes the Regional Center for Health Professions (RCHP) and the Regional Center for Advanced Manufacturing (RCAM).

The RCHP will house the college’s division of nursing and the health professions programs of cardiovascular technology, dental assisting, EMT-paramedic, medical laboratory technology, and surgical t e c h n o l o g y.

A joint venture of Northeast State, Domtar and Eastman Chemical Co., the RCAM will provide training for existing and future manufacturing employees. Construction will begin on the RCAM later this year. “

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