{"id":40929,"date":"2016-10-11T18:25:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T18:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=40929"},"modified":"2016-10-11T18:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T18:25:50","slug":"acc-elgin-campus-expanding-with-new-classrooms-clinics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/10\/11\/acc-elgin-campus-expanding-with-new-classrooms-clinics\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Elgin campus expanding with new classrooms, clinics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KXAN:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kxan.com\/2016\/10\/11\/acc-elgin-campus-expanding-with-new-classrooms-clinics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACC Elgin campus expanding with new classrooms, clinics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kxan.com\/author\/kxanclairericke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Claire Ricke<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Published:\u00a0October 11, 2016<\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 Austin Community College is breaking ground on Tuesday at 10 a.m. for a project to expand the Elgin campus.<\/p>\n<p>The project includes a building with new classrooms, a surgical clinic and a place to house small animals for students of the Veterinary Technology program.\u00a0The school is also constructing\u00a0a 11,000-square-foot new outbuilding for Sustainable Agricultural Entrepreneurship students. There will also be a new processing kitchen for the food grown on the campus\u2019 working farm.<\/p>\n<p>This is a part of phase II for the Elgin Campus adding 18,500-square-feet to the college. The new facilities will open in spring 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince opening three years ago the ACC Elgin Campus has been a focal point for our community,\u201d says Elgin Mayor Chris Cannon. \u201cFrom early college high school classes to continuing education programs, the college represents opportunity for our residents. We\u2019re excited to be a part of its growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The campus improvements are a part of the 2014 bond election which allotted money for capital improvement projects. You can monitor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/bond\/\">updates on those projects here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KXAN:\u00a0ACC Elgin campus expanding with new classrooms, clinics By\u00a0Claire Ricke\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Published:\u00a0October 11, 2016 AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 Austin Community College is breaking ground on Tuesday at 10 a.m. for a project to expand the Elgin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/10\/11\/acc-elgin-campus-expanding-with-new-classrooms-clinics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":33605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[386,1193,775,197,687,942],"class_list":["post-40929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acc-in-the-news","tag-elgin-campus","tag-elgin-phase-ii","tag-groundbreaking","tag-kxan","tag-sustainable-agriculture-entrepreneurship","tag-veterinary-technology-program"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}