{"id":83666,"date":"2025-12-10T22:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/83666\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T22:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:10:11","slug":"collin-college-makes-headway-on-new-frisco-health-science-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/83666\/","title":{"rendered":"Collin College makes headway on new Frisco health science center"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCollin College<\/a> is getting closer to opening its new health sciences center<\/a> at its Frisco campus.<\/p>\n

College leaders along with city of Frisco officials celebrated a construction milestone as the final beam was lifted and placed on top of the Health Sciences Center during a topping-out ceremony held Dec. 3, according to a college news release<\/a>. The 120,000-square-foot center will provide additional space for the college’s current health science programs while creating spaces for new programs.<\/p>\n

The project is estimated to cost approximately $71.8 million and is expected to open in spring 2027.<\/p>\n

“Great progress has been made toward creating this innovative learning environment,\u201d Collin College district President Neil Matkin said in the release. \u201cWe can all be proud of contributing to a Health Sciences Center that will offer high-demand programs that align with local workforce needs. It\u2019s a win for our students, for our healthcare partners and for the community who will benefit from receiving care from well-trained, highly qualified healthcare professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n

About the project<\/p>\n

The new facility will include a three-story building with classrooms, clinical laboratories, faculty offices, conference rooms and collaboration areas for students.<\/p>\n

The center\u2019s first floor will house new radiology and imaging programs. The second floor will be dedicated to nursing with hands-on simulation technology and lab space. Once opened, the center will have about 34,000 square feet of shell space that will house future programs in the next five to 10 years, Matkin previously told<\/a> Community Impact.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a board, we work together to support the many great things happening at Collin College,\u201d said Andrew Hardin, treasurer of the Collin College board of trustees. \u201cToday it is just beams, but January 2027 will be here before you know it and soon we will be offering additional health science programs in Frisco, in ultra-modern facilities, at Collin College prices.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Health Sciences Center was designed by PBK Architects<\/a> and is being built by McCarthy Building Companies<\/a> with AECOM<\/a> serving as the owner\u2019s representative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collin College is getting closer to opening its new health sciences center at its Frisco campus. College leaders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[10720,40328,10719,40327,160,162,161],"class_list":["post-83666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-collin-college-frisco-health-center","tag-collin-college-health-classes","tag-collin-college-new-health-science-center","tag-frisco-science-center-collin-college","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}