Two bond projects at Lone Star College-CyFair are moving forward. LSCS officials said the system has purchased a building in the Beltway 8 Corporate Center Business Park—5060 Westway Park Blvd.—for a new advanced technology center. Meanwhile, a groundbreaking has been set for March 7 for a 75,000-square-foot instructional building at the LSC-CyFair main campus on Barker Cypress Road. The advanced technology center is being designed to cater to students in the computer information technology and visual communications program. The initial renovation and buildout process will provide 50,000 square feet of space to LSCS students, but the building is about 130,000-square feet in its entirety. Classrooms will be ready for students by late spring 2017, officials said. Audre Levy, the former president of LSC-CyFair who was instrumental in guiding bond projects, said the concept for the advanced technology center was to recreate workplace environments in the classroom. "We're working very closely with industries to create spaces where students feel they are really in the workplace," she said. The instruction building—which will be located between the Center for Academic and Student Affairs— also includes plans for 750 parking spaces. The building is meant to provide classroom space for the growing student population. Enrollment has grown from 12,248 students in 2007 to 20,510 students in the fall of 2015, where it is nearing capacity levels. M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates, the same firm that worked on the LSC-CyFair main campus, has been named the architect for the instructional building. Stantech Architecture is working on the computer information technology and visual communications building.