2008 Woodie Awards
Valley Breaks Prop. A Ground
LaGina Phillips
Issue date: 5/4/05 Section: News
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With last week's groundbreaking of the campus' first new building since 1975, Valley College's massive renovation project to give the campus an extreme makeover is under way.
"Everyone is looking forward to the buildings. They're working in old buildings that were designed in the 1940s," said Tom Lopez, Valley's director of college facilities, at last week's commencement for the 28,000-square-foot Maintenance and Operations / Sheriff's Station.
The $6.6 million building will house shipping and receiving, Sheriff's personnel and operations and other offices, and should be completed by early 2006.
"It's a major upgrade; it will bring the departments closer," said Valley's Vice President of Administrative Services, Tom Jacobsmeyer. "The buildings we currently use for plant facilities are spread throughout the bungalow area."
"ReVitalizing Valley," the $286 million project funded by propositions A (passed in 2001) and AA (2003), will bring four more groundbreakings to campus by this time next year, giving Valley a much-needed face-lift.
The gymnasium/pool complex renovation will start this fall, including the installation of a new pool and gym roof, an alarm-system upgrade and a fresh coat of paint.
"It's going to open up a new can of worms for the aquatics," said Swimming/Water Polo Head Coach Jim McMillan. "It's going to attract new swimmers [and] water polo players. We'll be able to bring in outside swim meets and water polo events and have summer water polo and swim camps."
Next in line are the Media Arts Center and the Hertzberg Library Resource Center that will house the Museum of the San Fernando Valley, scheduled to start in winter of 2006. One of the larger projects in the plans is the three-story Allied Health/Sciences building, which is scheduled to go under the knife next spring.
David May, the chair of the Library, said the best thing about the new library facility will be that multiple student services will be in close proximity, including the learning, writing and reading centers, and the math and supplemental instruction labs.
"We'll also modernize the library," said May. "There will be more computers in the library for research purposes."
 Media Credit: Robert Dodds Courtesy of Robert Dodds/IMS REVITALIZING VALLEY - Campus faculty and staff arrive at the ground breaking of Valley´s first new building since 1975. |
"Everyone is looking forward to the buildings. They're working in old buildings that were designed in the 1940s," said Tom Lopez, Valley's director of college facilities, at last week's commencement for the 28,000-square-foot Maintenance and Operations / Sheriff's Station.
The $6.6 million building will house shipping and receiving, Sheriff's personnel and operations and other offices, and should be completed by early 2006.
"It's a major upgrade; it will bring the departments closer," said Valley's Vice President of Administrative Services, Tom Jacobsmeyer. "The buildings we currently use for plant facilities are spread throughout the bungalow area."
"ReVitalizing Valley," the $286 million project funded by propositions A (passed in 2001) and AA (2003), will bring four more groundbreakings to campus by this time next year, giving Valley a much-needed face-lift.
The gymnasium/pool complex renovation will start this fall, including the installation of a new pool and gym roof, an alarm-system upgrade and a fresh coat of paint.
"It's going to open up a new can of worms for the aquatics," said Swimming/Water Polo Head Coach Jim McMillan. "It's going to attract new swimmers [and] water polo players. We'll be able to bring in outside swim meets and water polo events and have summer water polo and swim camps."
Next in line are the Media Arts Center and the Hertzberg Library Resource Center that will house the Museum of the San Fernando Valley, scheduled to start in winter of 2006. One of the larger projects in the plans is the three-story Allied Health/Sciences building, which is scheduled to go under the knife next spring.
David May, the chair of the Library, said the best thing about the new library facility will be that multiple student services will be in close proximity, including the learning, writing and reading centers, and the math and supplemental instruction labs.
"We'll also modernize the library," said May. "There will be more computers in the library for research purposes."
