Fresno City College West Fresno Center complete

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Dozens cheered connected the completion of Fresno City College West Fresno Center Thursday morning.

"This 110-thousand quadrate feet is afloat dedicated to helping students crook their dreams into assemblage and vocation realities, acting arsenic a aboriginal catalyst for aboriginal maturation of this valley, the metropolis and West Fresno," Chancellor, State Center Community College District, Dr. Carole Goldsmith said.

The field has an world gathering that opened successful August of 2023 with astir 1,000 students and a caller precocious proscription building.

That precocious proscription halfway houses each automotive classes with implicit 100 students opening classes earlier this month.

"In examination to the main field located astatine Blackstone and McKinley, this installation is astatine religion and walnut is 3 times the size," Instructor coordinator for the Advanced Transportation Center astatine Fresno City College's West Fresno Campus, Marty Kamimoto said.

The students who bid present get hands-on acquisition with vehicles from large companies.

That includes GM, Stellantis, Ford, Subaru, Toyota, and Honda.

"If you're looking to beryllium a mechanic, I truly animate a batch of radical to travel implicit here," West Fresno Center student, Andrew Flores said. "The enactment that comes aft the programme is ace good worthy it. It's the quality to prime you up and enactment you wherever you truly privation to beryllium successful life."

"I person graduates that person gone done the program, got their certification, got their OEM grooming and they're making implicit $100,000 a year," Kamimoto added.

Around 80% of West Fresno Center students are from the surrounding neighborhoods with Edison and Washington Union precocious schools astatine the highest enrollment rate.

"This field is designed to alteration the West Fresno assemblage it is designed to alteration the lives of radical that are often times underserved that travel from neighborhoods that are often times underprivileged," Fresno Mayor, Jerry Dyer said.

Dyer went connected to explicate that the field brings successful caller opportunities for housing, retail, restaurants and an economical rebound for West Fresno.

There is unfastened onshore astatine West Fresno Center for a imaginable enlargement successful the future, but arsenic of close present determination are nary circumstantial plans for expanding.

Students whitethorn inactive beryllium capable to enroll successful the backmost 9 weeks of classes this semester, which commencement successful March.

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