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STCC Takes Next Step in Nursing Bldg. Plans

STCC Takes Next Step In Nursing Bldg. Plans
 
Tuesday, January 31, 2012, Vol. 127, No. 20
 

693 Union Ave.
Memphis, TN 38103
 

693 UNION AVE. • MEMPHIS, TN 38103

Permit Cost: $14.6 million
 
Project Cost: $18.2 million
 
Permit Date: Applied January 2012
 
Owner: Tennessee Board of Regents
 
Tenant: Tennessee Board of Regents
 
Architect: Fleming/Associates/Architects PC
 
Contractor: W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Co.
 
Details: Work is moving forward on Southwest Tennessee Community College’s long-planned Nursing, Natural Sciences, Biotechnology Building at its Union Avenue campus Downtown.
 
A $14.6 building permit application has been filed with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement for the three-story building, which also will include two mechanical penthouses. W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Co. is the project’s general contractor.
 
The Southwest Foundation in late 2010 received $8.4 million in state appropriations for the building. The foundation by that point had already raised about $10 million from individuals, corporations, organizations and federal appropriations. Those include a $1 million pledge from Medtronic Inc., the Minneapolis-based company whose Spinal and Biologics Business is based in Memphis, and $2 million from FedEx Corp. – the largest donation in STCC’s history.
 
The building, which was designed by Fleming/Associates/Architects PC, is slated to have about 61,000 square feet with two wings: one for nursing and one for natural sciences and biotechnology.
 
STCC’s nursing program has outgrown its 8,500-square-foot building and must turn away students each year because there’s no room to accommodate them, the school told The Daily News.
 
The new facility will be able to accommodate about 400 nursing students, according to the school, which stated the number of students for both the nursing and biotech programs can increase about 45 students.
 
For more details about the project, see The Daily News’ Thursday, Jan. 26, edition at www.memphisdailynews.com.