Amid a California Construction Freeze, L.A. Community Colleges Push Forward With Plans

It's one characteristic of the current financial crisis, that it is affecting different kinds of institutions, in different places, in different ways. And that's even before the stimulus package is available for our "shovel ready" projects:

The University of California and California State University systems have both suspended construction projects. The shutdown could affect some $1-billion in projects in the Cal State system alone, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

But apparently the California suspension doesn’t affect plans at the Los Angeles Community College District. The Los Angeles Times reports that the community-college district is pushing ahead with $400-million in projects on its $5.7-billion plan, one of the largest higher-education expansion plans in the country.