Community college closing downtown Pittsburgh site

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Community College of Allegheny County will close its downtown Pittsburgh campus at the end of the year and combine those operations with another site on the city’s North Side.

The college’s trustees say the move will save about $500,000 a year, which is necessary because it is losing $3.5 million in annual state funding and another $2.5 from the county.

Nobody will be laid off, however, and the trustees believe the move will help students in the long run.

That’s because it will consolidate its Pittsburgh operations at a building on the North Side where students will have free parking and access to the school’s library, advisers, and other staff.

The downtown satellite location had offered classrooms and a testing site for about 1,800 students. It has been open for 24 years.