{"id":44491,"date":"2017-09-22T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=44491"},"modified":"2017-09-22T18:14:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T18:14:03","slug":"44491-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2017\/09\/22\/44491-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Highland campus enters phase two"},"content":{"rendered":"

KXAN: ACC Highland campus enters phase two<\/a><\/p>\n

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ACC Highland campus enters phase two<\/h1>\n

AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 Austin\u2019s old Highland Mall is going from shopping center to learning center, with the second phase of Austin Community College\u2019s campus getting underway Thursday.<\/p>\n

Dozens of people attended the groundbreaking Thursday for the latest additions to ACC\u2019s new Highland Campus. In all, the new space will be 415,000 square feet and be home to a student-run restaurant, a \u201cschool to business incubator\u201d and more than a dozen ACC programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s work, live, play, but most importantly learn \u2014 get the trades necessary, the skills necessary to be successful,\u201d said ACC President Richard Rhodes.<\/p>\n

The campus will serve about 5,000 students when it opens in 2019 or early 2020.\u00a0It is funded by part of a 2014 bond that also provides money for five other projects<\/a>: an ACC Rio Grande campus renovation, a new campus in San Gabriel, a new building in Round Rock and Elgin and a new facility for first responders at the Hays campus.<\/p>\n

ACC purchased the mall back in 2010, and opened a renovated space in the old JCPenney location to 4,000 students in 2014.<\/a>\u00a0The mall officially shut down in 2015 to prepare for phase two of the Highland campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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