
{"id":6871,"date":"2018-12-07T18:25:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T18:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=6871"},"modified":"2018-12-07T18:25:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T18:25:03","slug":"memorial-hall-project-finally-begins-groundbreaking-marks-10-year-lobbying-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/memorial-hall-project-finally-begins-groundbreaking-marks-10-year-lobbying-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Hall project finally begins: Groundbreaking marks 10-year lobbying effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Echo staff report<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In what was billed as an event 10 years in the making, Rochester Community and Technical College broke ground Nov. 2 on its new Memorial Hall building.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony marks the beginning of a $23 million project funded by the passage of the 2018 bonding bill.<\/p>\n<p>The project consists of three phases: construction, renovation, and demolition. The construction phase will include new offices, academic flex space and a large, versatile classroom that will occupy the two-story addition that wraps around Endicott Hall, Coffman Center, and Singley Hall on the west side of Main campus.<\/p>\n<p>The existing maintenance garage and old child care center will be torn down. A new building entrance and drop-off lane will also be constructed.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to maximize space utilization amongst existing square footage, spaces in Endicott, Singley, College Center and Science and Technology buildings will see a number of upgrades and renovations including moving walls, upgrading technology, updating furniture, and making the spaces more learner-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Construction, renovation, and remodeling will begin shortly and conclude in July 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Echo staff report In what was billed as an event 10 years in the making, Rochester Community and Technical College broke ground Nov. 2 on its new Memorial Hall building. The ceremony marks the beginning of a $23 million project funded by the passage of the 2018 bonding bill. The project consists of three phases: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[51,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}