Guilford Technical Community College is set to break ground at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday on the first phase of its new $34.6 million aviation center .

The event will be held at the GTCC Conference Center at 7908 Leabourne Road in Colfax.

Gov. Josh Stein, Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, Guilford Tech President Anthony Clarke and HondaJet Chief Administrative Officer Rich Richardson are scheduled to attend.

The 70,000-square-foot training center is being built on the Cameron campus, which opened in 2014 just northwest of Greensboro. The training center is projected to debut in the spring of 2027.

The state of North Carolina and Guilford County are the sources for the funding.

The center will expand the college’s aviation training facilities to support emerging technologies in comp

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