Posted on 11/08/2015 8:35:05 AM PST by SandRat
SIERRA VISTA — The near-empty shell of the former Sierra Vista Regional Health Center is slowly giving way to demolition work as crews prepare the decades-old facility for its new life as Cochise College’s Downtown Center, set to open next year.
When the facility was officially gifted to the college by the Legacy Foundation of Southeast Arizona earlier this year, it effectively expanded the square-footage of the college’s Sierra Vista Campus by 50 percent, with just over 90,000 square feet of additional space to house the college’s nursing and allied health programs, culinary arts program and more.
“We’ve basically gutted the building down to the walls and supports. The goal is to make it as empty as possible,†said Cochise President J.D. Rottweiler during a tour of the facility Thursday morning.
*chortle*
That said, I hope the new facility will be a great benefit to the community.
ummm...isn’t naming a college after a native american indian kind of derogatory, almost rubbing in the face the fact that Cochise never went to college?? #insertsarctags
Lol.
I forgot to say, Welcome to FR and thank you for serving. I lived in SATX from 1984 to 1995. For the first few years, I was a student at Trinity, and then I worked for that big insurance company on the north side.
Thank u!
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