VGCC Plans Dedication Ceremony For New Franklin Campus Building

Vance-Granville Community College will formally dedicate its newest classroom building at the Franklin County Campus in ceremonies beginning at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 26.

Classroom Building 5 was completed at the end of 2005, and classes began in the facility in January at the beginning of Spring Semester 2006.

The two-story, 17,000 square-foot building enables Vance-Granville to expand its educational and training offerings in the areas of Continuing Education, Basic Skills/Literacy, and Personal Enrichment classes, as well as providing space to add more General College curriculum classes at the campus on N.C. 56 west of Louisburg.

Construction of the building began in late 2004 under the direction of the general contractor, Bordeaux Construction Co. of Durham. The architectural firm of Dove, Knight, Whitehurst & Andrews of Rocky Mount designed the building. Cost of the building was $2.3 million.

The new building is behind the other four Franklin Campus buildings at the rear of the college property. It contains general instruction classrooms, two Adult Basic Education classrooms, a community service classroom/lab for personal enrichment classes and an Occupational Extension computer lab.

There are also classrooms for emergency medical services training, the Nursing Assistant program and a Human Resources Development computer lab. There is also an Information Highway, or V-Net classroom, connected to VGCC’s other campuses by fiber optic cable, that allows an instructor on one campus to teach classes on all campuses.

A 57-space parking lot has also been developed at the building to help accommodate parking for the growing number of Franklin County students taking advantage of the convenience of their local campus.