Chaffey College
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Community college plans new campus in Fontana, California

Dec. 2, 2024
Chaffey College has allocated $210.6 million for a four-building campus on a 15-acre site.

Chaffey College, a community college with its main campus in Cucamonga, California, is planning to build a new campus in Fontana.

The Fontana Herald-News reports that the $210.6 million campus will have four buildings on a 15-acre site. The college projects that construction will be completed by January 2029.

In addition to its Rancho Cucamonga campus, Chaffey College has an existing Fontana campus a campus in Chino and an Industrial Technical Learning Center that also is in Fontana.

The new campus will have a welcome center and library, an instructional building, an automotive technology laboratory and an operations and maintenance building. Other sites and infrastructure include parking lots, utilities and green spaces for open sitting and studying.

The welcome center and library will be four stories and 51,000 gross square feet; the three-story instructional building will be 28,000 gross square feet; the technology laboratory will be three stories and be a total of 50,000 gross square feet; and the operations building will be two stories and 8,000 gross square feet.

The campus will include programs for arts and sciences, business and math, information technology, humanities and social sciences, automotive technology, advanced manufacturing, economic development, industrial electricity, cloud computing, welding and physical and occupational therapy assistance.

The design-build team is DPR Construction and SmithGroup.

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Mike Kennedy has been writing about education for American School & University since 1999. He also has reported on schools and other topics for The Chicago Tribune, The Kansas City Star, The Kansas City Times and City News Bureau of Chicago. He is a graduate of Michigan State University.

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