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Elected officials and
invited guests join Forsyth Tech President Gary Green,
center, on July 27 to
mark the official groundbreaking of the college’s new
Stokes County Center in the
Meadows community near Walnut Cove.
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"(Winston-Salem,
NC) – On July 27, more than 80 people
turned out for a groundbreaking ceremony hosted by Forsyth Tech to celebrate the
commencement of construction on the college’s new Stokes County Center at 1165 Dodgetown Road in
the Meadows community near Walnut Cove. The Center represents the college’s
first permanent facility in Stokes County.
On hand to offer remarks were Dr. Gary
Green, president of Forsyth Tech; Ed Welch, Chair of Forsyth Tech’s Board of
Trustees; Ronda Jones, Chair of the Stokes County Commissioners; and Ann Watts,
Director of Stokes County Operations for Forsyth Tech.
Attendees included county commissioners,
the county manager, members of the board of education, the school
superintendent, representatives from the offices of Senator Richard Burr and
Congressman Mark Walker, State Representative Bryan Holloway, members
of Forsyth Tech’s Board of Trustees and Foundation Board, as well as students
from the Stokes Early College program.
Watts expressed her excitement for the
center, saying, “It’s been over 30 years in the making, and I could not be more
proud.”
“We are embarking on a new era in
Stokes County,” said Jones. “Education is imperative to our economy, and we
could not ask for a better place or better people to move this county forward.”
Following the remarks, Green, along
with 10 of the invited guests, pushed ceremonial shovels into the ground and tossed
dirt to officially mark the groundbreaking of the Stokes County Center.
The new 20,000-square-foot center,
which was designed by the architecture firm of Walter Robbs Callahan & Pierce,
has been designed to meet the educational needs of Stokes County’s growing
population. It will offer expanded space for adult and early college students,
a lab for the nursing program, facilities for EMT training, and
state-of-the-art science and computer labs. Plans are also in place to create
within the center an agriculture and agritourism program, tapping into the
unique farming opportunities available in Stokes County.
Blue Ridge Enterprises is overseeing
construction of the center, which is expected to open in fall 2016.
Forsyth Tech received $6 million from Stokes County for construction
of the center."
- A Press Release
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