As part of the Houston Community College's $425 million bond, HCC-Missouri City received $21.5 million to construct a new facility—the Center for Entrepreneurship, Technology and Health, or CETH, facility. The project includes the construction of the new building north of the existing academy center at 5855 Sienna Springs Way in Missouri City.

In preparation for the bond election, HCC officials—including Fena Garza, president of HCC–Southwest College, who oversees five HCC campuses—canvassed the area and spoke with local elected officials and residents to determine the needs of the community.

"After gathering all of the information from our constituents, we came up with a list of what the community needed," Garza said. "We narrowed it down to the health and business entrepreneurship professions. Anything health and business related—these services were sorely needed in the community."

The CETH facility is expected to have the capacity to serve 2,000 students and will include space for classrooms, labs, exhibitions and a health career academy, along with a student lounge, welcome center and administration offices. Construction is slated to begin in October and is expected to wrap up in late 2015.

Proposed courses include the didactic portion of the residential nursing program, EKG screenings, business technology, accounting and a variety of certification programs.

"Our practicums are arranged with the local hospitals, and we have several [partnerships] already in place," Garza said.

In addition to the new Missouri City campus facility, the Stafford campus received $27 million from the bond to construct a new workforce facility to include programs in manufacturing, drafting and design engineering, cyber security and logistics. Construction is scheduled to begin February 2015.

"We are going to have a continuing education division, offering individual courses that there is indeed a demand for," Garza said. "We have narrowed [our programs] down to local industries in need of trained individuals."

The new Stafford campus facility—the Advanced Manufacturing Center—is expected to offer several transferable courses to help students obtain certifications and associate's degrees.

"We want to heavily compliment those courses that are being taught at Stafford Municipal School District," Garza said. "We would like this to be the career corridor for [local] high school students."

Houston-based Kirksey Architects is in the process of designing both facilities and expects to have the official plans ready for approval by April.

The remaining money from the $425 million bond package—which was approved in 2013—is being split between all of the HCC campuses and will also be used to construct news campuses in Acres Homes and Eastside by mid-2016.