New Cafeteria and Child Development Center Added to Campus
On November 14, 2002, the Hubert H. Humphrey Job Corps Center presented designs for a new cafeteria and child development center to residents of the surrounding community. The designs addressed neighborhood concerns by utilizing existing buildings, and by preserving a recreation area on the south side of the intersection of Arlington and Arona. One vacant building would be renovated for the child development center, while a second would be upgraded for use as warehouse space.
The new cafeteria officially opened on November 1, 2005, with a small ribbon cutting ceremony. The completed building (pictured center right) with a curving glass wall fronting on the campus provides a bright, spacious and welcoming environment for students and staff, and allows a greatly improved flow of breakfast, lunch and dinner groups through the lines.
The child development center is scheduled for completion in early 2006. Current efforts are focused on ensuring adequate funding to operate the facility to be used for the care of children whose parents attend the Humphrey Job Corps Center. Up to 40 infants, toddlers and preschoolers can be accomodated in the renovated first floor space of the building (pictured top center) which was once a college dormitory, but which has stood vacant since the center began operation.
