Orange Coast College has broken ground on a $50 million educational building. The three-story, 107,760-square-foot building will house language arts and social science.

The building's first floor will house classrooms, labs, an English as a second language computer lab and room, facilities for the speech, debate and theater team and a journalism newsroom. The second floor will be comprised of classrooms and connect to the existing mathematics business and computer center building, while the third floor will encompass division and faculty offices. The building also will feature two elevators, a lactation room and gender-neutral restrooms on every floor.

C.W. Driver building the property, and is partnering with tBP Architecture on the project.

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