Orange Coast College has started another new development at its 160-acre campus in Costa Mesa—home to Orange County’s third-largest college by student count.
C.W. Driver Cos. said late last month it had begun work on a three-building, 88,000-square-foot kinesiology and athletics complex at OCC.
The $36 million project will be built in two phases. The first will add new athletic buildings totaling 58,000 square feet while the second will renovate the existing 30,000-square-foot building that houses locker rooms and the school’s pool used for swim meets.
There will also be offices and classrooms built related to kinesiology, the study of body movements and physical activity.
The project is expected to wrap in 2020, bringing new offices, classrooms, and facilities. Little Diversified Architectural Consulting is also involved in the project.
The construction at the Costa Mesa college is funded from bond proceeds through Measure M, a 2012 initiative to rehabilitate education facilities.
A similar initiative, Measure J, funded an $80 million STEM building at Cypress College. Irvine-based Sundt Construction is behind that project, which began construction earlier this year.
Orange Coast College, next to the Orange County Fairgrounds on Fairview Road, has been undergoing a wave of construction in recent years to modernize its campus. Some of its buildings date back to the 1940s.
Other new developments of late include a planetarium, student housing, and a student life building.
