Palomar College To Break Ground On Rancho Bernardo Satellite Campus

SAN DIEGO, CA – Palomar College officials are scheduled Friday to begin a project to develop a satellite campus in Rancho Bernardo.

The San Marcos-based community college purchased the 27-acre property on Rancho Bernardo Road in 2010.

The lot already contained a 110,000-square-foot building and three-story parking structure.

The project will involve improvements like completion of a roadway and installation of walkways, landscaping and lighting.

A lobby, lecture and laboratory classrooms, and offices will be built inside the building.

Space also will be made for student support services, a bookstore and food services, information services and a community room.

The site purchase and improvements are being funded with the $694 million Proposition M bond approved by voters in November 2006.

Classes are scheduled to be offered at the site beginning in the summer of next year.

By City News Service / Photo courtesy of Palomar College