BY JENNIFER WEINGART
The new building is an addition to MMCC's current campus. it will house classes currently taking place at the outdated and crowded Pickard Building.
Matt Miller the Vice President of Community Outreach for Mid expressed the great need for an upgrade from the facility on Pickard.
"We've been over at the Pickard Campus for 20 years now and it worked well for us when we were about half the size but we've doubled in size in the last ten years and so what we had over there while it was adequate wasn't really serving students as well as we could." Miller said.
The new building will house mainly liberal arts and humanities classes that are generally taken at Mid then transferred to a university.
President of the College Carol Churchill sees the new building as very exciting for the college and the community.
"I may cry, no seriously I may! This is a dream. This is exactly what Mid needs, this is exactly what the community needs." Churchill said.
The new building will be LEED certifiable and is scheduled to open for the Fall 2014 semester.