JJC Breaks Ground for New Building
Freezing temperatures necessitated a move indoors and a symbolic groundbreaking.
Joliet Junior College officials, politicians and citizens turned out on a cold Tuesday afternoon for the groundbreaking of the new City Center facility. Because of the cold temperatures the event was moved indoors and officials dug mini shovels into a cake designed by culinary arts students to mimic an outdoor groundbreaking. The culinary arts program will be housed in the new building when it is complete. Here is the breakdown of the new building by the numbers: 6: Number of stories in the new building. 2: Number of stories in the glass-enclosed lobby of the new building 58: Number of millions of dollars it will cost to build the new building. 3: Number of programs that will be housed in the new building - the department of adult …
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Brad Baber
10:29 am on Thursday, February 14, 2013
In the 2008 general election when the JJC capital plan referendum was passed, this city center culinary building was planned as a $24M public/private partnership. The board then voted to increase it to $31M. Then they voted to increase it to $43M and not longer being a partnership, but all tax payer money. Then they increased it to $51.8M, and now $58M. Even at $58M they have not included all of … more ›