It looks like the long-awaited renovation of the Old Administration Building at Fresno City College is about to get under way in earnest. The State Center Community College District has written a letter to campus neighbors -- I'm one of them -- alerting us to a "flurry of activity" that will begin in October. Here's the district's Web page on the project.
Bring it on. Saving the historic OAB was a long and hard struggle over a couple of decades. It will be delightful to see the building resorted to academic and other uses, which is expected to happen in a couple of years.
We've written extensively on the effort to save the OAB over the years, including our first-ever "audio editorial" that went up on our Web site a few months ago. Check it out here.
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