Carl Sandburg College’s Board of Trustees last Thursday got their first look at a science and technology center that would serve as a new focal point of the campus.
Trustees also scheduled a public hearing next month for them to issue $30 million in bonds to fund the work.
The Board heard a presentation by Paul Kouri of the College’s architecture and engineering firm, Farnsworth Group.
The proposed building would either replace or be adjacent to the portion of Building B that currently holds the College’s automotive technology program. Both options woul have the automotive program moving to the Center for Manufacturing Excellence across the street in Building G.
Sandburg’s President Seamus Reilly says the new building would complete a lot of “circulation issues”, centralize a lot of functions and make it a “very dramatic and obvious destination point, no matter how you approach the campus.”
The board already approved a resolution in September authorizing the $30 million bond issuance. The public hearing is set for Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. in the A. Lewis Long Conference Room (E200) on the Main Campus.
