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Tunxis Community College Opens $12.6 Million Expansion

The new wing includes 20 new classrooms at the Farmington college.

Tunxis Community College has completed a $12.6 million classroom building extension, according to a press release from the college.

State, local and Board of Regents for Higher Education officials visited the Farmington campus on Aug. 22 for the grand opening.

“If it takes a small village to raise a child, it takes the equivalent of a small city to build a building in Connecticut,” Tunxis President Cathryn Addy, Ph.D., said in reference to the second phase of the college's construction plans. “It’s been an exciting journey." 

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The new wing of the 600-classroom building adds 20 classrooms, including two computer labs, writing and math labs and an "early childhood education program classroom," the release states. The extension amounts to 56,000 square feet.

She praised several people involved in the project, including Techton architects Craig Saunders and Kevin Kerchaert, CT DAS Department of Construction Services workers Peter Simmons and John Cavacas, Warren Breece of W.J. Mountford Construction Co., the general contractor, and Tunxis Director of Facilities John Lodovico.

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“We’re two-thirds of the way through. There is a Phase III,” she said.

There will be a third floor on the building for "college offices and meeting space," according to the press release. 

There are about 12,000 students who attend Tunxis Community College, which first opened in Farmington in October 1970 with 494 students. 


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