As the greater Austin metro area expanded,\u00a0and as\u00a0the number of students attending classes at Austin Community grew apace,\u00a0building\u00a0new ACC\u00a0facilities gathered momentum. College expansion was easily justified; however, locating new campuses\u00a0carried\u00a0financial as well as emotional implications, sometimes good and sometimes bad. Such was certainly the case in the Cedar Park\/Leander area, still\u00a0bogged down in\u00a0the 1980s economic doldrums, but future growth was a virtual certainty, and an ACC campus c wiould be one catalyst. Real-estate developers had deals to make; fast-food restaurants could feed (and feast on) the\u00a0thousands of students, faculty, and staff converging on a campus neighborhood from early morning to late evening. And there would be headaches too: traffic clogging streets and roads running through existing residential neighborhoods\u00a0and tax levies\u00a0to support a college campus, to build and maintain new streets and roads, and new bus and other public transportation services.<\/p>\n
Competition for selection of the new northwest campus site was led by Buttercup Joint Venture, which offered ACC 20 acres of property on Cypress Creek Road, southwest of Highway 183. College officials openly stated their preference for that site. Another potential location was off Bagdad Road in Leander. Block House Creek was a third contender, and a fourth was in the Quest Towne Center project.<\/p>\n
For the time-being, the facility was designated a “teaching center,” which Mike De Vault, executive assistant to President Dan Angel explained was sort of a mini-campus with basic\u00a0course offerings but without many\u00a0“high-cost” technical programs.\u00a0Hanging in the balance were two nearby ACC\u00a0facilities occupying rental property: 620 Oaks and Rutherford, both of which were soon closed.<\/p>\n
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