Students, staff, trustees and others gathered to celebrate the finalization of the refurbished Building P, a ribbon cutting ceremony took place at the Liberal Arts Campus on Thursday, March 14.
The celebration welcomed staff, students, board of trustee members, and other members of the college.
Attendees were welcome after to eat and socialize while listening to jazz music played by a live band in the quad of the new Building P.
As one of the oldest buildings on campus, Building P was planned to be one of first to get refurbished.
“I love it, I think the architecture preserves the history and it’s wonderful to see that,” said Sunny Zia, president of the board of trustees.
The building is now equipped with classrooms that include Macs that raise and retract, remodeled restrooms, and an open quad with a small stage that allows student to have another environment to socialize and relax in.
“We want students to have a spectacular, current, modern learning environment to live in so that they can have all the tools you need to make a wonderful career of itself,” said President Reagan F. Romali.
Lee Douglas, dean of language arts and communication said, “You really have best of both worlds with this building. You got the old history still inside of it, but all new modern technology.”
In Jan. 2018, Governor Brown approved a $120 million allocation in the act to make LBCC a fully online community college.
According to the facilities master plan, it is scheduled to renovate buildings for both campuses, improvements for Veterans stadium, and even building a parking structure for PCC.
The next buildings to be renovated are the M and N buildings at LAC with $26.806 million for Multi-Disciplinary Facility Replacement.
LBCC will also begin renovating Building-MM at PCC with Phase 1 already starting with drawing construction.