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The design development phase was completed in late March. The architectural firm Gensler issued a package of full-size design development review packages at the 50 percent and 100 percent complete level for ACC departmental review and comment. Gensler addressed all comments and made revisions. The college...

The Austin Community College District Board of Trustees has approved the issuance of lease revenue bonds for Hays Campus. The action finalizes the financing for construction of the campus in Hays CISD. “This allows ACC to take major steps forward, and we are now on the road to breaking ground,” says...

The Texas Supreme Court has cleared the path for the Austin Community College District to move forward with construction of the new Hays Campus. On January 13, the court ended a resident’s legal challenge to the college’s Hays CISD annexation election by declining to hear his petition for review. “We...

The schematic design phase has been completed. Gensler issued a package of full-size schematic design drawings and a design narrative for review by ACC departments, Benchmark Development, and Flintco, the construction manager at risk. The package currently is being reviewed for comment, with a deadline in...

The project is nearing the end of the schematic design phase. During November we held a second series of ACC department meetings to review and revise all the suite floor plans. Gensler is now finalizing the floor plans for the building and developing the exterior building elevations and site plan. A...

ACC continues to make progress toward breaking ground on the new Hays Campus, as the college awaits a decision on a challenge to the November 2010 Hays CISD annexation election. Ray Wolbrecht – the resident who filed the challenge – recently submitted an appeal to the Texas Supreme Court. ACC has filed a...

The project is in the middle of the schematic design phase. On October 26, we held an Internal Steering Committee meeting, and the architectural firm Gensler presented the Phase I proposed floor plans and site plan to illustrate the shape of the building footprint and the relationship between programmed...

We continue to make steady progress on the project on the ACC Hays Campus. As of the date of this posting, bond documents could be closed by December, at which point the firm construction budget will be finalized. A Kyle External Review Committee meeting was held September 15 to present the final campus...

The Third Court of Appeals of Texas issued an opinion July 27 that dismissed the challenge to the Austin Community College District annexation election held in Hays CISD in November 2010, thereby permitting the college to move forward with financing for the ACC Hays Campus. We already have been moving...

May 2011 – While a legal issue precludes the establishing a project budget, we are moving forward with the master planning effort of the entire 96 acres. Master Plan The survey of the project was completed by Raba-Kistner and is now being used by Gensler to develop the master plan. We have already held...