SMCC begins work on base campus
Southern Maine Community College's plan to establish a campus at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station moved forward this week with a property transfer.
SMCC officials, base redevelopment leaders and state lawmakers gathered at Brunswick Landing, as the base is now known, to celebrate the transfer of two building deeds to the college, according to The Times Record. At the event, SMCC outgoing President James Ortiz said the Midcoast Campus will allow SMCC to accommodate the 4,000 applicants it turns down each year due to a lack of capacity at its South Portland campus. SMCC will turn the 14,400-square-foot former Surface Naval Support Center into its Maine Advanced Technology and Engineering Center, which used to be housed in another Brunswick property, and will turn former officers' quarters into classroom space and a campus center. As many as 19 courses are scheduled to be offered in Brunswick this September. The base was decommissioned in May.
SMCC is slated to receive three other buildings in the next few months through a no-cost federal conveyance process to house a health sciences program, a technology center and an arts and sciences center, according to the paper. The campus is funded in part by $4.25 million through a bond package and a state tax increment financing program.
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