After four years of construction, Northeast Lakeview College, the newest addition to Alamo Colleges, is complete. Designed by Overland Partners Architects in collaboration with Ford Powell & Carson, the nine-building, 285-acre campus in Universal City, near San Antonio, will serve up to 15,000 students. At 82,000 sf, the Library and Learning Resource Center is the campus's largest building, comprising a 35,000-sf library with learning labs, cyber café, and student art center, as well as 40,000 sf of teaching and office space. The contractor was Austin Commercial, with CNG Engineering as MEP.
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