If you haven't been out East Wendover Avenue lately, you won't believe how it has changed. Gone is that rural feel of being way beyond the outskirts of Greensboro, and the area continues to get more built up. In the above photo, you can see the East Wendover campus of Greensboro Technical Community College (GTCC) in all its glory. The campus is comprised of four buildings on 69 acres. This campus provides many useful trade programs: architectural technology, machining technology, manufacturing technology, industrial systems technology, turfgrass technology (just about "technology" everything); plus, paralegal studies, plumbing, residential carpentry, and so much more.
The main building, featured in this photo, is GTCC's first LEED-certified, "green" building. It is 45,000 square feet of total energy efficiency. Watch this short little video clip if you want to take a peek inside. Greensboro is very proud of GTCC as it provides such an important community service. It is a way for people to continue their postsecondary education affordably and without having to leave home. If you peek at the street signs at the top of the photo, you can see that this campus of GTCC is located at the precise point where Wendover Avenue "changes" to Burlington Road.
Not to mention the ESL (English as a Second Language) offerings that GTCC provides for our immigrant community.
Posted by: Jane Mitchell | Saturday, August 25, 2012 at 09:03 AM
I miss the rural feeling. When we first came to the east side of town there was a dairy farm next door to my home. And we live 2 miles west of GTCC just 2 blocks from East Wendover.
Posted by: Billy Jones | Saturday, August 25, 2012 at 07:31 PM
Billy:
We hope to meet you sometime. You are a wealth of information about Greensboro, especially, the east side! And you seem to take such an interest in your/our community.
Janis & David
Posted by: Janis & David | Saturday, August 25, 2012 at 08:02 PM