{"id":51552,"date":"2025-12-03T23:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51552\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T23:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:23:07","slug":"racc-plans-expansion-following-purchase-of-landmark-downtown-building-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51552\/","title":{"rendered":"RACC plans expansion following purchase of landmark downtown building | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Reading Area Community College (RACC) bought a landmark building in downtown Reading.<\/p>\n<p>The school purchased the standout brick building at South Second and Penn Streets, right at the base of the Penn Street Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>School officials say they plan to expand academic programming, but they aren&#8217;t sure just yet what programs will be offered at the site.<\/p>\n<p>A real estate listing says the building dates back to 1896, when it was built as the Keystone Firehouse.<\/p>\n<p>It was updated in 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Reading Area Community College (RACC) bought a landmark building in downtown Reading. The school purchased&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[29294,28,12961,736,12962,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-51552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-keystone-firehouse","tag-pennsylvania","tag-racc","tag-reading","tag-reading-area-community-college","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51552","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=51552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}