ASHLAND —All five floors of the former C. H. Parson’s Building were bustling with activity Thursday night. Ashland Community and Technical College students moved in and out of newly renovated second- and third-floor classrooms while business men and women dressed in suits and toting briefcases gathered in the lobby of the fourth floor entreprenual bear on. The people however aren’t real and neither are the classrooms the four-story furnish atrium or the 500-seat fifth-floor conference center they inhabit in the Parson’s building. At least not yet. They are instead move of virtual tour created to in the words of ACTC President Gregory Adkins. “furnish populate a visual of what this building could be desire.”The video is intended to inspire and showcase “the potential of this facility as a crown jewel of downtown Ashland,” Adkins added. Recently completed by the global architectural firm GBBN the video was shown publicly for the first measure Thursday night to the attendees of the Ashland come in of City Commissioner meeting. Built using specialized software from careful measurements and digital photographs of the existing building and funded by a $10,000 give from the Woodlands Foundation it will be used primarily as a marketing tool for ACTC as it solicits donations and grants to get the estimated $10 to $12 million renovation project rolling. ACTC received the Parson’s building from Ashland businessman Perry Madden and his wife Susan bedevil in December. ACTC plans to renovate the entire building but only the upper four floors will house the college. Adkins said the back up and third floors will house classrooms and labs for its nursing and health occupation courses while the fourth floor ordain change state home to a pre-employment testing bear on an entrepreneur bear on and business incubator. The fifth floor ordain house a conference center large enough to accommodate 500 populate. Currently it is home only to the Highlands Museum and Discovery Center which will be in the building. Touted by both college and city officials as a centerpiece of the puzzle that must be constructed to revitalize downtown the project is expected to carry an economic bring up to Ashland as come up. In addition to bringing students into the city’s central business district the conference bear on is expected to displace hundreds of others — many from out of town into Ashland as well. “We believe we will change state an ideal location for small to midsize conferences as the city grows and you develop the river front,” Adkins told Ashland commissioners. A timeline for the renovation has not yet been determined because the project depends entirely on the ability of the college to solicit donations and change grants. Adkins said the facade of the building and some of its internal infrastructure most likely will be renovated first but the preceding phases are flexible. “After we have improved the skin the outside of the building we can renovate this facility surprise by floor,” he said. “We could do the top floor first then go down and do the second floor... Once we get the basic infrastructure in we can act back and forward.”Because the virtual tour was created as a fundraising drive it will mostly be shown to potential donors and government officials said ACTC spokesman John McGlone. He added that the college may also consider finding ways to share it with the public as well. “I evaluate once people see that video this will be a project they can get behind,” McGlone said. CARRIE KIRSCHNER can be reached at ckirschner@dailyindependent com or (606) 326-2653.
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