Allied Health set to open 2017

Construction Front C.U. copyBy Chris Urquia

What’s similar about construction and early childhood development? Both are meant to build things up.

That’s what’s happening behind Peninsula College’s Keegan Hall.

Since mid-December 2015, Neeley Construction and Cabinet Construction have been behind the construction of the college’s new $25.6 million building, the Allied Health and Early Childhood Development Center.

Jason Sloan, the project foreman, said, “It’s a yearlong project, and the official moving date is December 2017.”

This new 41,650 square-foot facility will have a hospital layout on the second

floor for the nursing students, with the Educare facility on the ground floor.

Hopefully, they’ll be learning new skills while studying in a ‘Greys Anatomy’ environment so that the transition from school to hospital will be an effortless adjustment.