The Watch
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POST-SECONDARY FOOTPRINT GETS BIGGER IN EDMONTON Edmonton’s Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) opened in 1963 with nine buildings at its campus near Edmonton’s city centre. It has since grown to in- clude 29 buildings across four different campuses. NAIT is about to grow again. The polytechnic insti- tute is poised to double its footprint, after purchasing two new parcels of land from the City of Edmonton: 13.27 hectares in the developing community of Blatch- ford, northwest of the main campus, and 4.8 hectares
at the former site of a transit garage, north of the main campus. The acquisitions will allow NAIT to continue to grow in the decades to come, eventually consolidating almost all of its programs at the main campus. Exceptions will be those that, by their very nature, require more space, like the crane and hoisting program in Spruce Grove. Coming soon: a new student residence at Blatchford and a skills centre at the old transit property.
NAIT BUYS SOME ROOM TO GROW Posed by the view of NAIT’s Blatchford connection is the polytechnical school’s President and CEO Dr. Glenn Feltham. -photo courtesy NAIT
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