MCCC to break ground on new health science center

BLUE BELL Montgomery County Community College is to break ground Thursday on its new Health Sciences Center.

Renovating the Physical Education Building has long been on the college's to-do list. A feasibility study to turn it into a health sciences center was completed in 2010, and trustees approved it as the first project in the college's 2012-22 facilities master plan.

The 158,000-square-foot center will have laboratories in addition to 14 classrooms and 10 seminar rooms, a dental hygiene clinic, an updated gym for students and athletic teams, a separate gym for educational programs, staff and faculty offices, and an atrium and cafe.

According to the master plan, the college expects the center to cost from $30 million to $35 million. - Jessica Parks