Madera Community College breaks ground on new campus

OAKHURST, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The caller Madera Community College, Oakhurst field broke crushed Friday.

The tract located disconnected Highway 49, is simply a long-anticipated project, which is funded by Measure C that passed successful 2016.

Madera Community College has been serving the Oakhurst assemblage for astir 30 years.

“Prior to that, we started astatine Yosemite High School conscionable offering classes, truthful we're precise excited astir this committedness and its concern successful our assemblage to supply imperishable facilities for our community," the Dean of the Oakhurst field for Madera Community College, Dr. Darin Soukup said.

The existent campus, adjacent the Oakhurst Branch Library, sits connected astir 2 acres.

The caller campus, however, volition amended accommodate students and enactment the college's aboriginal growth.

"If you physique it, they volition come, and I deliberation we person a batch of students successful this country that thin to spell down to Fresno City College oregon Clovis," Madera Community College President, Dr. Angel Reyna said.

The caller tract volition span implicit 22,000 quadrate feet, with 3 wings.

"Kind of enclosed arsenic a triangle, truthful successful the cardinal hub volition beryllium an outdoor arena, and past astir it volition beryllium each the classrooms," Soukup said.

College officials accidental they privation to connection much to the assemblage and they program to present caller programs erstwhile the field is up and running.

“We're looking astatine hospitality and tourism, we're looking astatine earthy resources and possibly immoderate wildfire tech, and assemblage partnerships to conscionable prosecute our assemblage arsenic a whole,” Soukup said.

Soukup says reaching this constituent wasn't easy.

"A batch of the delays was just, we are distant and we're gathering connected a tract that did not person immoderate infrastructure, but the committee of supervisors were relentless," Soukup said.

The field is expected to beryllium implicit successful the adjacent 2 years.