JAMES CITY – – Thomas Nelson Community College’s new Historic Triangle campus is now expected to open in the fall.
The first building will be completed this spring, according to Historic Triangle campus provost William Travis. It is located next to Warhill High School in James City County, and is a 120,000 square foot facility three stories high.
“We plan to start to deliver classes in the new building next fall,” Travis said. “We expect to get occupancy late spring or early summer, with the college still having quite a bit to do to set up information technology systems and set up furniture. So we’re not going to try to move classes in the middle of a semester. “I think we can see more problems with that then we can see benefit.”
The college’s dental hygiene program, projected to start in August of 2010, will be housed there. An October timeline for the new offering had it moving into the renovated Hampton III building on the Hampton campus.
But TNCC interim president Alvin Schexnider announced at the December board meeting that the program will be located in the Historic Triangle. Dental hygiene will take over 5,000 square feet on the second floor that was originally planned for work force development training.
Although the hope is for four or five buildings at the site in the future, the second building is at the long-range conceptual stage and nowhere close to architectural planning, according to Travis.
TNCC already conducts classes in the Williamsburg-James City County area, but will now have its own facility. The college is advertising to raise awareness of its new presence in preparation for its opening.
“We hope that everybody knows,” Travis said. “We plan to move in this summer and be in our new facilities in the fall. It’s a really pretty facility. It’s just a real beautiful operation.”
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