Officials announced an additional 6 million dollars in funding has been secured for Monroe Community
College's new downtown campus.
It's located in a building adjacent to Eastman Kodak's headquarters.
Several years in the making, the new campus will house everything that is currently in the Damon City
Campus, according to MCC President Anne Kress.
She says the additional funds are a combination of internal college dollars and matching state funds.
Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks says the project is on time, and in 2008, the budget for a
new MCC campus was 72-million dollars. She says nearly 8 years later, it's still 72-million.
It's expected around 3-thousand students will attend classes at the new MCC downtown campus
when it opens in the fall of 2017.
Here's a part of a virtual tour of the building by LaBella Associates President Robert Healy:
http://youtu.be/fNnXjmp2J2I