Tennessee Board of Regents approves $64M building project at Columbia State Community College

BLOUNTVILLE, TN – During its quarterly meeting Friday, the Tennessee Board of Regents approved building project proposals for its colleges, five new and revised policies, the proposed budget for the next fiscal year, and other measures. This includes replacing the Warf Building at Columbia State Community College.

The board approved its new building project requests for state funding, totaling $449 million, and a proposed $80.5 million request for major maintenance projects across the system. The TBR requests now go to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission for its review along with similar proposals from the state’s public universities. THEC’s recommendations will then go to state officials later this year for consideration for inclusion in the overall state budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2026-27, which the state legislature will consider next year. Projects will not receive final approval until the legislature approves the state budget next spring.

For FY 2026-27, the board focused on projects at the community colleges, after the state approved more than $1.5 billion for projects at the Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology in recent years.

The project proposals approved by the board Friday are:

Dyersburg State Community College, new Workforce Entrepreneurial Center, $49 million.
Volunteer State Community College, new Wilson County Higher Education Center, $61 million.
Columbia State Community College, Warf Building replacement, $64 million.
Dyersburg State Community College, new Henry County Higher Education Center, $43 million.
Nashville State Community College, Science and Technology Building replacement, $57 million.
Cleveland State Community College, Career Education Center replacement and renovations, $92 million.
Northeast State Community College, Technical Education Complex addition, $18 million.
Walters State Community College, Technology Building replacement and renovations, $65 million.