The Fred W. Beazley Portsmouth Campus, located on the site of the former Frederick College, was donated by Frederick W. Beazley and the Beazley Foundation for the purpose of creating a community college. It opened in the fall of 1968 as the original site of TCC. Overlooking the James River and Hampton Roads harbor, the campus is located seven miles west of downtown Portsmouth, near Interstate 664, and encompasses 520 acres. The Frederick W. Beazley classroom building houses academic programs, administrative offices, and student services. Totaling 200,000 square feet, this building houses most of the instructional programs for the Portsmouth Campus, which include the college's nursing, trucking, environmental, drafting and welding programs. In addition, the campus offers a wide array of transfer programs designed to prepare students to transfer to a four-year institution.