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Lone Star College System Named Landmark Award winner by HBJ - Kingwood

Lone Star College System Named Landmark Award winner by HBJ - Kingwood

By: LSCS Office of Public Information
Published: Apr 17, 2010, 9:00am

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LSCS was the winner in the "Project Sale" category for its purchase of 1.2 million square feet of Hewlett Packard's Co.'s north campus that was once global headquarters to Compaq Computer Corp.

"We're proud to receive this Landmark Award from the Houston Business Journal," said Dr. Richard Carpenter, LSCS chancellor. "The purchase of this property last year was an extraordinary transaction that saved millions of dollars for the Lone Star College taxpayers.

"Community members had come to Lone Star College asking that a college be developed in that area and we said we would. So the purchase and development of this facility represents a promise kept to northwest Harris County," Carpenter said.

Newly named "University Park", the class A facility opened to its first students in January 2010 with more than 4,000 attending classes. Much of the campus, at State Highway 249 and Louetta Road, has already been renovated by LSCS since the May 2009 purchase to create technologically-advanced classroom and instructional facilities.

LSC-University Park is also home to the LSCS Veterans Affairs Center, Corporate College, LSC-Online, a dining hall staffed and catered by Luby's, along with the Corporate College Conference Center, a state-of-the-art meeting facility with 19 meeting rooms encompassing 14,000 square feet of space. Later this year, the LSC-University Center at University Park will open with a number of four-year university partners that include some of the best universities in Texas and the University of Houston System will open the first "storefronts" with fully-staffed student services for both UH and UH-D in summer 2010.

The other finalist in the Landmark Awards "Project Sale" category was YES Prep Public Schools West for its purchase and renovation of a 98,000 square foot vacant medical office building located near the former Sharpstown Hospital site in southwest Houston.

The winners and finalists were recognized at the Landmark Awards '10 evening gala on April 6. HBJ described the Landmark projects as those "that continuously improve the look, feel and image of Houston." Other categories included, for example, "Community Impact," "Headquarters Move,"  "Industrial Project," "Mixed-use and Retail Project" and "Multifamily Project."

 







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