A series of facility upgrade projects will be launched at growing Pima Community College, depending upon the fate of a bond proposal facing Pima County voters next month.
Proposition 430, if passed, will allow the school to issue up to $250 million in general obligation bonds for work on the school’s campus. Of that amount it is estimated that just under $59 million will target building upgrade and energy efficiency projects.
A smaller $57 million will be devoted to modernizing academic spaces. In this category, the school plans on renovating classroom space at its Desert Vista campus; while another $39.8 will go for the long-planned 20,000-square-foot expansion of the school’s Center of Excellence in Public Safety and First Responders.
An additional project: the creation of new 14,000-square-foot police headquarters on the school’s downtown campus, an imitative expected to cost $29 million.
The bond question, notes the Tucson Spotlight, is “the first the college has asked voters for in 30 years.”
In making a pitch for passage of the bond, Pima Community College President Jeffrey Nasse earlier this fall noted that “many of Pima’s learning spaces and facilities date back to the 1970s.”
Based in Tucson, the nearly 60-year-old institution of higher learning has an enrollment of around 40,000 students on five separate campuses.
October 16, 2026
By Garry Boulard
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