BLINN TRUSTEES TO RECEIVE RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING SALE OF BONDS

  

Blinn College’s financial advisor will offer recommendations regarding the sale of bonds to fund development of a new Bryan campus during Blinn’s regular Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday.

Steven Adams, managing director of Specialized Public Finance, Inc., will present the board with financing options for the new campus.

In February, Blinn purchased 95 acres at the intersection of F.M. 2818 and Leonard Road in Bryan for the development of a second Brazos County campus. Blinn plans to develop this land into a 10,000–15,000 student campus to complement the College’s existing Bryan campus on Villa Maria Road. The additional campus will allow Blinn to develop additional science, technology, engineering and mathematics offerings and expand its workforce, technical, research and health-related education programs.

The Blinn board was presented with a preliminary glimpse of the Bryan West campus master plan last month. The draft, developed in partnership with Kirksey Architecture, includes a first-phase building designed to service 2,500 students, along with plans for associated amenities such as parking, security and recreational and study space.

The proposed plan calls for the multi-phased development of seven academic buildings, three amenity buildings and as many as 6,000 parking spaces, including more than 1,000 spaces in Phase 1 of the project.

As proposed, Phase 1 has a preliminary $35 million construction budget and would accommodate approximately 2,500 students with one amenity building and an academic building that would include eight labs and 18 classrooms. Phase 1 is scheduled for completion in time for the Fall 2017 semester.

For the latest information regarding the development of the new campus, visit www.blinn.edu/expansion.

 

 

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