LRCE moves into new home

The Louisiana Resource Center for Educators has moved into its new home on Florida Boulevard after renovating 25,000 square feet of a 30,000-square-foot building it bought last year from Louisiana Office Supply for a little under $1.7 million. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be at 11 a.m. on June 30. The space LRCE formerly leased in Bon Carré was 15,000 square feet. Nancy Roberts, LRCE executive director, says the organization simply outgrew its old home as its alternative certification educator-training program has grown from 50 enrollees when it began to 370 today. Also, LRCE’s library has roughly doubled to more than 40,000 titles since moving into Bon Carré in 2001. “We have real nice training rooms and good sounds system, Internet connectivity and lots of bandwidth, lots of capability to do distance learning,” Roberts says. LRCE spent $1.6 million renovating the new location.—Steve Clark