Bergen CC scraps plans for meadowlands construction.PARAMUS Paramus (pərăm`əs), borough (1990 pop. 25,067), Bergen co., NE N.J.; settled 1668, inc. 1922. It is a large retail-trade center known for its expansive shopping malls. An early Dutch church is there. , N.J. (AP) -- Bergen Community College Bergen Community College is an accredited, co-educational, two-year, public, community college located in Bergen County, New Jersey. Its primary campus is in Paramus where it was built on 9 holes of the Orchard Hills Golf Course, cutting Orchard Hills' size down in half. says it is no longer interested in building a $30 million campus in East Rutherford Rutherford (rŭth`ərfərd), borough (1990 pop. 17,790), Bergen co., NE N.J., a residential suburb of the New York City–N New Jersey metropolitan area; inc. 1881. Several pre-Revolutionary houses remain there. near the Giants-Jets football stadium. Instead, the school's president says it is considering buying an existing building to accommodate increasing enrollment in the Meadowlands area. College President Jerry Ryan says the poor economy could work to the school's advantage because real estate prices have declined. The Paramus-based college currently has a southern Bergen County satellite facility in a rented building in Lyndhurst. It enrolls more than 900 students. Ryan says the college would like to acquire a building of 110,000 square feet or more. |
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