Simmons College of Kentucky is planning to build a new campus on the site of the old Christ the King Church in Louisville’s Chickasaw neighborhood.
The new Westover Campus would be a hub for science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) learning for Louisville’s only historically Black college. Converting the church property into classrooms and labs is expected to cost around $32 million in total.
Myra Rock, chief of staff at Simmons, said plans for expanding science and technology offerings have been a goal of college for years. She said conversations between administrators at Simmons and industry leaders in Louisville often had a recurring theme of “asking for more and more graduates in the STEAM fields.”…