Lane Community College is in the final stages of renovating its Center Building on the main campus. Today more than 150 community members and students gathered to cut the ribbon to the new facilities.
Lane Community College students, staff, and visitors will notice a stark difference in the transformed structure—it’s open, inviting, and easy to navigate.
Matt Koehler is the landscape architect for the project and an LCC alum. He says this area of campus used to be confusing.
Koehler: “It was kind of like the game Chutes and Ladders, there were various paths and ramps and stairs. So when the opportunity presented itself that I could help maybe create an outdoor space that was both open but allowed connectivity through all the different buildings and allowed students to really mix and mingle, I couldn’t pass that up.”
Construction began in 2014 and the updated Center Building opened for students last fall.
Madi Shook attends Lane. She says she enjoys studying between classes in the renovated space.
Shook: “I was here over the summer and they were working on it. I’m amazed at what they did. It’s really nice, they opened a lot of studying areas.”
The $35 million project was funded through a voter approved bond measure and private donations.