Schools
CCAC Trustees Approve Study of New North Suburbs Campus
A potential location is in Marshall Township, near the junction of Interstate 79 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Community College of Allegheny County trustees recently approved the second phase of a feasibility study into building a new campus in the northern suburbs, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
The college is running out of room at is current North campus in McCandless, where 5,600 credit-seeking students were enrolled as of last fall.
The P-G reported that one potential location is near the junction of Interstate 79 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Marshall Township.
The board's vote authorizes Oxford Development Corp. to use $85,000 to study that site more extensively, identify other potential locations and conduct market demand analysis, CCAC spokesman David Hoovler told the Post-Gazette.
The timetable is still tentative, but officials said they hope to break ground in about five years.
No decision has been made about what to do with the existing site in McCandless, the PG reported.
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