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MAYHEW, Miss. (AP) — East Mississippi Community College will break ground June 6 on a new student union on its Mayhew campus.
The new building will provide additional classrooms and serve as an anchor for student services.
The project will cost about $17 million. It is scheduled to open in 2016.
In addition to 12 new classrooms, a 100-seat lecture hall and a 100-station computer lab.
By moving offices and services into the new building, the community college intends to reconfigure its current buildings and expand educational offerings.
It also hopes to provide on-campus living spaces by 2018.
Officials say the project has been in the works for about two years.
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