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Centerfield plaza for baseball park

By R. Oliphant
Thursday, August 7th, 2014

Baseball Centerfield Plaza Project about done

One of the many building projects currently in some stage of development on the Prescott campus involves the centerfield bleachers at the baseball field.  The Community College Facilities department reports that work  is nearing completion to replace the existing concrete bleachers with a new plaza.  It also reports that the new plaza will be a combination of fixed and open seating for spectators to view the action from center field. 

Centerfield plaza

Centerfield plaza

There are neither significant athletic programs nor athletic fields or facilities located outside the Prescott/Prescott Valley area.  The cost of this renovation was not available. 

Categories : Construction

Student housing in Prescott; none in Verde Valley

By R. Oliphant
Thursday, August 7th, 2014

Students on Prescott campus move into renovated housing; no similar housing planned for Verde Valley

Commons and kitchen area of new student housing drawing

Artists concept posted by Yavapai College of kitchen area of new student housing.

The Yavapai Community College estimates that about 130 students will be living in the new Marapai residence hall dorm this semester. Another 90 students will be living in the Kachina residence, which was completely renovated last year. There are no student housing plans for the Verde Valley. Source: Prescott Courier.  For artist renderings of the new facilities, please click here. 

To the left is an artist’s rendering of the renovated kitchen area of one of the new student housing projects.  The estimated cost for renovating the two dormitory areas is $5 million dollars.  The project was approved in 2012 – 2013 by the Yavapai Community College Governing Board.

The Board has refused to construct student housing anywhere outside Prescott.  This has been a major barrier to full development of the Verde campus in Clarkdale.  It is in part responsible for problems with supporting the Sedona Film School, which was closed by the College this year.

Categories : Construction, Housing, Yavapai Community College

Taxpayer supported tennis court going up

By R. Oliphant
Monday, July 28th, 2014

 A $1.3 million dollar tennis complex being built on the Prescott campus is said to be what “every community will want in the future“

The Yavapai Community College tennis center complex going up on the Prescott campus was recently described by Prescott Daily Courier columnist Chris Howard  as consisting of “six post-tensioned concrete championship courts and a new stadium court — all with state-of-the-art lights, seating and viewing areas, 10 and under lines on the upper two courts, new and expanded tennis programs and no more crisis management.”  He wrote that “This facility will be what every community will want to have in their future.” 

He also reported that the Prescott Area Tennis Association had raised nearly $200,000 for the complex and the City of Prescott will give $25,000 and repave the parking lot between the new tennis facility and the baseball complex at Roughrider Park at a cost of about $80,000.  County taxpayers will provide the remaining $1.1 million dollars of the estimated cost for the complex.  To read more, click here.

The construction of the tennis area continues the Prescott tradition of building all athletic facilities on the Prescott campus.  After more than 45 years, it has never constructed an athletic facility anywhere else in the County.

 

 

 

Categories : Construction, Tennis Court
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