{"id":165263,"date":"2026-04-14T09:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165263\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:24:11","slug":"construction-starts-for-new-lackawanna-college-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165263\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction starts for new Lackawanna College building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 A new building is going up in downtown Scranton, and it\u2019s designed to train the next generation of cybersecurity workers. Construction is officially underway Monday night for Lackawanna College\u2019s new Center for Technology Innovation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The college broke ground on its 17,000 square foot facility back in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/local-musicians-teach-next-wave-213920603.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Local musicians teach the next wave of artists;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Local musicians teach the next wave of artists&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Local musicians teach the next wave of artists <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The school says the building should be open by this summer, and will give students all they need to fill the millions of open cybersecurity jobs across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 A new building is going up in downtown Scranton, and it\u2019s designed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[53,572,201,178,180,179,50224],"class_list":["post-165263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-construction","tag-lackawanna-college","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-square-foot-facility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}