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2022年10月24日

10月21日星期五，位于罗斯维尔的泰勒建筑公司在Placer One上破土动工，Placer One是Placer县一个2213英亩的总体规划社区，为新的博彩平台校园奠定了基础，并与塞拉学院、县和开发商建立了前所未有的合作关系。

“This is about the community,” 萨克拉门托 State President Robert S. Nelsen said at the groundbreaking ceremony. “萨克拉门托 State is 75 years old. 我们有31000名学生。 … come to campus. It’s crowded.

“We needed Placer County. 我们需要服务我们的社区。 We needed all of this to come together for the future of this country, to deliver education in a new way to our students.”

Placer One位于罗斯维尔北部未合并的Placer县65号高速公路走廊沿线。 规划中的社区将包括5636个住宅单元、商业和就业中心、公园和自然开放空间。 一个广泛的自行车道网络将把社区与工作、购物和餐饮联系起来。

以前被称为Placer Ranch，该开发项目包括萨克拉门托州立Placer中心和塞拉学院转学中心的未来场地。

奠基仪式标志着砂矿一号的基础设施工作开始，包括道路、供水、下水道和电力。 第一座住宅的建设计划于2024年初开始。

Placer中心在初期阶段将为1500名全日制学生提供服务，并计划在15年内发展成为一个拥有12000名学生的完整校园，拥有一个会议中心和表演艺术中心。

The first phase of construction for Placer Center is scheduled to begin within the next five years and will include an extension of Sierra College, one of the University’s largest feeder schools.

塞拉学院（Sierra College）校长邓肯（Willy Duncan）说，该校40%的学生转学到Sac州立大学，使Sac州立大学成为罗克林社区学院排名第一的转学机构。

邓肯说，大约有3000到5000名萨克州立大学的学生往返于普莱瑟县。

“That drive can be 30 minutes to an hour, maybe longer depending on how much traffic you hit,” Duncan said, adding proximity to campus is a major factor in student success.

“If you’re a student that’s struggling, you’re on the margins, and have to work full time or have a family at home, it’s so easy to say, ‘I can’t do that, yet. I don’t have the money or the resources,’ ” Duncan said.

“So, getting this right here in our community, to me, is what will make a huge difference to so many of our students.”

邓肯和尼尔森说，普拉塞中心将是一个创新的校园，为学生提供在塞拉学院和萨克州立大学双重注册的机会，节省他们的时间和金钱。

砂石中心还将与该县和邻近城市合作，利用附近的资源，如温泉池、垃圾填埋场和赌场，在酒店、林业和环境科学等领域创建学术集群。

“This will be a place of innovation, a place that is transformative, where our students will be able to call home,” Nelsen said.

Eli Broad, the philanthropist and businessman behind Placer Ranch, donated 301 acres of land to 囊状态 to build a satellite campus in one of California’s fastest-growing regions.

2020年3月，科罗拉多州立大学董事会投票决定接受这块价值2740万美元的土地礼物。 泰勒建筑公司于2021年购买了该项目，并将其更名为Placer One。

“This will be a place of innovation, a place that is transformative, where our students will be able to call home.” -- Robert S. Nelsen, 囊状态 president

Taylor Builders的总裁克利夫顿·泰勒（Clifton Taylor）说，Placer One和新校区将成为Placer县和大萨克拉门托地区的经济催化剂。

“I feel very strongly this will be a major driver of economic development in the region,” Taylor said. “I personally believe it could be the most important economic driver in the region, and we’re going to work very hard to make that a reality.”

Placer县主管Robert Weygandt估计，该项目将为该县带来4000个新的永久性工作岗位，以及数百万美元的新劳动收入和间接营业税。

“All of this is beyond my wildest dreams when we started about 30 years ago,” Weygandt said.

据博彩平台基金会董事会主席、前Placer Ranch总裁霍莉·蒂切（Holly Tiche）说，这个项目已经酝酿了几十年，面临着一些障碍。

Tiche, a 囊状态 alumna who was instrumental in making Placer Center a reality, called it a “region changer.”

“We might’ve been able to have a campus with some co-located services for students, but nothing like (Duncan and Nelsen’s) vision for a true partnership between the institutions, which creates another heavy lift for both campuses,” Tiche said. “But it also creates a seamless transition for students and gets them to their degrees in the most effective way possible without all the institutional hurdles.

“That’s not something that’s happening anywhere else in the state of California.”