Eastern Iowa Community College: Davenport

Davenport,
IA
(2017)

Eastern Iowa Community College: Davenport

College or Vocational Training

SCC Urban Campus renovated two currently vacant buildings to expand the current offerings of the Kahl Educational Center into a full-service community college urban campus that will mainly serve low-income students while helping to revitalize a historic business district in Davenport and catalyzing further redevelopment in the area.

Investment

NMTC Amount: $18,760,000
Total Project Cost: $30,500,000

IMPACT

232 FTE jobs
200 construction jobs

CDEs

Iowa Community Development, Urban Research Park CDE

Investor

US Bank

Project Description

The college has added new buildings packed with the latest in state-of-the-art equipment according to officials. Students now have an added incentive to enroll in classes at Scott Community College (SCC)’s new downtown Davenport Urban campus, a $1,000 one.

SCC Urban Campus is an EICC campus that will renovate two currently vacant buildings to expand the current offerings of the Kahl Educational Center into a full-service community college urban campus that will mainly serve students from the LIC, while helping to revitalize a historic business district in Davenport and catalyzing further redevelopment in the area.