Seattle Central Community College appears to be on the path for a Beacon Hill expansion. In April, CHS reported on the Capitol Hill school’s plans to work with the state on a bid to lease a portion of the Pacific Tower property — home to Amazon until 2011.

Here’s the announcement from the building’s landlords:

Today the Pacific Hospital Preservation & Development Authority (Pacific Hospital PDA) and the Washington State Department of Commerce signed a Letter of Intent to enter into a 30-year lease agreement for 13 floors of the Pacific Tower property. The parties have 90 days to complete due diligence, at which point an agreed-upon lease would be executed, with an effective date of Jan. 1, 2014.

The Pacific Tower property would be leased to the Department of Commerce. Commerce plans to create a Community Health College and Innovation Center.  Seattle Central Community College will occupy up to six floors of the Pacific Tower for classrooms and health care training programs for the Community Health College.

According to a SCCC memo, the school has proposed remodeling around 100,000 square feet of the building to house its Allied Health programs. Renovation cost is estimated to be approximately $27 million.

Current Allied Health program students already work and study off campus at area hospitals and clinics.