Evergreen Construction Breaks Ground on $2.1 Million Building For Beacon College in Downtown Leesburg

LEESBURG, Fla. – Evergreen Construction Management recently started site work for the construction of a new $2.1 million administration and classroom building for Beacon College in downtown Leesburg.

Mark Starcher, LEED, AP, President of Evergreen Construction Management, said the new two-story building located on East Main Street across from the Leesburg Public Library will accommodate the college’s growth and replaces the old administration building torn down in 2011.

Completion is scheduled for spring 2013, Starcher added.

Evergreen Construction Management, based in Central Florida, is a commercial construction firm led by Mark Starcher and Gary Klein, who have a combined 50 years of diverse large commercial project experience. The company focuses on general contracting, construction management and design build projects statewide in the education, healthcare, institutional, corporate and interiors markets.

Beacon College, founded in 1989, is the only accredited college offering BA and AA degrees for students with learning disabilities, ADHD and gifted LD. Beacon College serves students with ADD/ADHD, auditory and visual processing differences, dyslexia, expressive / receptive language deficits, gifted LD, language-based learning disabilities, as well as disabilities in reading/writing and math.

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