The nearly $9 million Washington County Regional Center of Kirkwood Community College will have a groundbreaking ceremony at 4 p.m. Monday. The new facility will be built northwest of Washington along Lexington Boulevard on a plot donated by Jim and Margaret Dunn of Washington.

Once complete the center will be nearly 39,000 square feet and house programming provided through partnerships with area high schools as well as traditional college courses and continuing education programming.

Construction will begin this summer with the facility opening its doors in the fall of 2014.