LBCC agrees to purchase Lebanon site for Advanced Transportation Technology Center
Future site of LBCC ATT Center in Lebanon, Oregon -->Linn-Benton Community College has reached an agreement to purchase a former manufacturing facility in Lebanon, where it will develop an education center to train people to work in the growing industry of alternative fuel vehicles in addition to providing space to expand its existing automotive and heavy equipment/diesel technology programs. The LBCC Advanced Transportation Technology Center, which could be fully operational as soon as late 2013, will be the only major training facility in alternative fuel technology between Seattle and San Francisco. Plans also call for fueling stations for alternative fuel vehicles, such as compressed natural gas, that could support local conversion of trucking and transportation fleets to take advantage of huge fuel-cost savings. LBCC agreed to a purchase the site, the former home of Pace Manufacturing, for $1.825 million from The Private Bank, Chicago, Ill. The site includes 11 acres a...