New media center will be added to SLCC

(Taylorsville/Kearns Journal) Ground should be broken in October for Salt Lake Community College’s Center for New Media. It will be built on the college’s South City campus on State Street. The $25 million project will be over 120,000 square feet once completed, expected by the summer of 2011.

The building will house studies of Digital Design, Communication Technology, Broadcasting, Entertainment Arts, Film, Web Design, Animation and Music Innovation.

The Center for New Media will be open, collaborative, intelligent space with intersecting hubs of activity where areas of study overlap and flow together, visually, spatially and functionally, according to a release from the college. The project also includes the relocation of the Salt Lake School District’s Career Technical Education program on the same campus. The new CTE building will be located at the south end of the campus and will share some of the common spaces with SLCC. Currently, the CTE provides course work in barbering, nail technology, companion animal service, forensic science, medical assistance, nursing, computer animation and digital photography.

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