{"id":121796,"date":"2002-10-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tcdi:8888\/?p=121796"},"modified":"2002-10-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-03T00:00:00","slug":"grand-opening-for-new-pierce-college-building-in-lakewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tacomadailyindex.com\/blog\/grand-opening-for-new-pierce-college-building-in-lakewood\/121796\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand opening for new Pierce College building in Lakewood."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pierce College Fort Steilacoom will celebrate the grand opening of its first state-funded classroom building in 20 years at noon on Friday, Oct. 4.<\/p>\n<p>The 24,827 square foot addition to the Olympic Building addition will eventually replace most of the space in the deteriorating 30-year-old portables that served the college since the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>The college is located at 9401 Farwest Drive S.W. in Lakewood.<\/p>\n<p>The new construction has taken the environment into account and has made the most of natural light.<\/p>\n<p>The new computer lab has improved ventilation to accommodate heat from the monitors and the flooring has been designed to allow easy reconfiguration.<\/p>\n<p>There is even a room for faculty to experiment with using new technology in class.<\/p>\n<p>Construction continues at the campus, with an additional 13,000 square feet being added to another portion of the pre-existing Olympic structure slated to be completed in the spring. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The addition to the Olympic Building opens Oct. 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[28337,28340],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-121796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-pierce-college","tag-pierce-college-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tacomadailyindex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tacomadailyindex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tacomadailyindex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tacomadailyindex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tacomadailyindex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tacomadailyindex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tacomadailyindex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tacomadailyindex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tacomadailyindex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121796"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tacomadailyindex.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=121796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}