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LANCASTER Lancaster, city, England Lancaster (lăng`kəstər), city (1991 pop. 43,902) and district, county seat of Lancashire, NW England, on the Lune River. -- Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. officials expect to receive $50.5million from Proposition 1D, the $3.5billion school construction measure that California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). voters passed Tuesday. Supplementing funds from the college's $139million Measure R, which Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley voters approved in 2004, the state money will help pay for a health-science classroom building and a theater-arts building as part of a long-range campus expansion. ``We look forward to continued build-out of projects as outlined in our (2004 local) bond,'' college President Jackie Fisher said. Consisting of a 400-seat theater that can double as a lecture hall lecture hall n → sala de conferencias; (UNIV) → aula lecture hall lecture n → amphithéâtre m and a two-story health-science building with 37 labs and classrooms, the two buildings are expected to cost $70.7million, with Measure R funds covering $20.2million. The theater building, which is to be built along Avenue K south of the existing theater, could start construction by 2008. Construction for the health-science building is further away, however, because other buildings must be relocated re·lo·cate v. re·lo·cat·ed, re·lo·cat·ing, re·lo·cates v.tr. To move to or establish in a new place: relocated the business. v.intr. using Measure R funds to make room for it. The next campus expansion project, expected to break ground next year, is a $8.9million complex that will house a new operations and maintenance building, a warehouse and new greenhouses for agriculture courses. Completion of the maintenance building is scheduled for late 2008, the agricultural buildings in spring 2009. The existing maintenance and agricultural facilities are in the way of the new health-science building. The new maintenance and agricultural facilities will be financed with Measure R funds because they don't qualify for state money, officials said. Other projects that can only be paid for by Measure R funds are also expected to get under way in the near future. Those projects include modifications to make buildings accessible to disabled people, renovation of Marauder MARAUDER. One who, while employed in the army as a soldier, commits a larceny or robbery in the neighborhood of the camp, or while wandering away from the army. Merl. Repert. h.t. Stadium, and improvements to athletic fields, including a parking-lot expansion. The $139million Measure R is funding construction aimed at updating the Lancaster campus, which has several buildings more than 40 years old, and will start the initial development of a Palmdale campus off Barrel Springs Road in southeast Palmdale. The overhaul is needed, college officials said, to accommodate enrollment expected nearly to double to more than 23,000 students by the year 2015. The first Measure R project was a $3.2million parking lot, which added 915 parking spaces to ease a chronic college parking shortage. Other recent college construction has been financed from other sources. A sheriff's academy building that opened this fall was paid for by community development funds from Lancaster and Palmdale, and new nursing classrooms by a state grant, spokesman Steve Standerfer said. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Antelope Valley College facilities planner Kelly Rosenzweig looks over the graded area where a new agricultural lab, maintenance and operations buildings will be built. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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