Construction on an expansion to the East Williamson County Higher Education Center reached a milestone Feb. 17, when officials celebrated the topping out of the new 70,000-square-foot building.
The gist
The new building will serve as a manufacturing technology center for Texas State Technical College, located in Hutto. The center will house training programs for semiconductor, industrial systems and precision machining technology.
The project costs roughly $47 million. The building is expected to open in spring 2027.
What else
TSTC was the recipient of a $3.5 million grant—provided through the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund—to develop the Accelerated Semiconductor Technician Training program, Gov. Greg Abbott announced in January. The additional funding and facility expansion comes as local institutions, business leaders and technology companies are hoping to grow the skilled labor workforce in Central Texas.
The new building sits adjacent to the 112-000-square-foot facility on campus, which is part of a multi-institutional teaching center that also includes Temple College and Texas A&M University Central Texas.
