Gov. Kaine attends groundbreaking for TCC's new Portsmouth campus

PORTSMOUTH

Friday’s drizzle stopped long enough for a line of notables, including Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, to dump pails of dirt from the current Portsmouth campus of TCC onto the new campus already under construction near Victory Boulevard and Greenwood Drive, ceremonially breaking ground for the project.

The new 35-acre campus, a $60 million investment by the state, the city, the city’s public schools and the Beazley Foundation, is expected to open by January 2010. It will feature four buildings to start, including a nursing school equipped with state-of-the-art human-patient simulators that blink, breathe and talk to students.

The current Portsmouth campus, actually located across the line in northeastern Suffolk, was the first of the four TCC campuses when it opened in 1968.

Matthew Bowers, (757) 222-3893, matthew.bowers@pilotonline.com