The gymnasium on the Prescott campus suffered significant water damage in a storm earlier this year. The replacement of the floor is underway and scheduled to take three more months. The exact cost of replacing the floor was not available at the time this blog was written. (Photo from Governing Board Facilities Report, December 14, 2014.)
The Community College Facilities Management unit reports that Phase 1 of the 10 year $119 million dollar development plan, with 97% of development scheduled for the Prescott side of the County, is moving quickly ahead. McCarthy Building Companies was recently hired to serve as the construction manager for Phase 1 of the Campus Master Plan.
Representatives from McCarthy are at work with SmithGroup/JJR and the College, developing design documents for construction along with a phasing plan to address the continuation of services in Buildings 1 and 3 and CTEC while construction is underway.
Renovation of the first floor of Building 32 will begin in mid-October to develop space for the Institutional Effectiveness and Research (IER) department. Once the IER team is moved into Building 32, the bulk of the Business Office functions will be moved to Building 29 followed by the Dean of Computer Technologies and Instructional Support office suite moving to the first floor of Building 1. All of these moves will occur prior to the start of the renovations of Buildings 1 and 3, scheduled to begin on or about
December 15, 2014.
One of the many building projects currently in some stage of development on the Prescott campus involves the centerfield bleachers at the baseball field. The Community College Facilities department reports that work is nearing completion to replace the existing concrete bleachers with a new plaza. It also reports that the new plaza will be a combination of fixed and open seating for spectators to view the action from center field.
Centerfield plaza
There are neither significant athletic programs nor athletic fields or facilities located outside the Prescott/Prescott Valley area. The cost of this renovation was not available.
Artists concept posted by Yavapai College of kitchen area of new student housing.
The Yavapai Community College estimates that about 130 students will be living in the new Marapai residence hall dorm this semester. Another 90 students will be living in the Kachina residence, which was completely renovated last year. There are no student housing plans for the Verde Valley. Source: Prescott Courier. For artist renderings of the new facilities, please click here.
To the left is an artist’s rendering of the renovated kitchen area of one of the new student housing projects. The estimated cost for renovating the two dormitory areas is $5 million dollars. The project was approved in 2012 – 2013 by the Yavapai Community College Governing Board.
The Board has refused to construct student housing anywhere outside Prescott. This has been a major barrier to full development of the Verde campus in Clarkdale. It is in part responsible for problems with supporting the Sedona Film School, which was closed by the College this year.
The Yavapai Community College tennis center complex going up on the Prescott campus was recently described by Prescott Daily Courier columnist Chris Howard as consisting of “six post-tensioned concrete championship courts and a new stadium court — all with state-of-the-art lights, seating and viewing areas, 10 and under lines on the upper two courts, new and expanded tennis programs and no more crisis management.” He wrote that “This facility will be what every community will want to have in their future.”
He also reported that the Prescott Area Tennis Association had raised nearly $200,000 for the complex and the City of Prescott will give $25,000 and repave the parking lot between the new tennis facility and the baseball complex at Roughrider Park at a cost of about $80,000. County taxpayers will provide the remaining $1.1 million dollars of the estimated cost for the complex. To read more, click here.
The construction of the tennis area continues the Prescott tradition of building all athletic facilities on the Prescott campus. After more than 45 years, it has never constructed an athletic facility anywhere else in the County.