Ivy Tech Community College - South Bend is currently in the process of buying property along the south side of Sample St between Michigan St and Fellows St near downtown South Bend. School officials are reporting that an over abundance of students is leaving them no choice but to turn away students from enrolling in many classes.
The community college's current building is located on South Michigan St behind the fire station on the east side of the street. Some opponents of the expansion claim that school would be taking up potentially valuable retail space along a main corridor of the city. Since the school is a non-profit, there would be no chance for the city to collect tax revenues either.
School officials insist that the area of proposed development will bring positive development to the area and will be welcomed by the all ready existing businesses such as Mossberg & Co and Ziker Cleaners. Along with the expansion will come more jobs which pay income taxes and the ability to educate more people in the community.
IVY Tech administrators believe that they can be of future service to coming nanotechnology industries that need to provide continuing education for their employees. The school already provides customized education like this for many area businesses, law enforcement agencies, trade organizations, and hospitals. Memorial hospital is a regular contractor with the college to provide continuing education to their nursing staff for things such as new developments in surgical technology.
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