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Timeline for Campus Center Project

A “Renovation Celebration” was held on April 12, 2005. This festive event saw the Super Tents formally renamed as the Sports Science & Athletics Pavilion. It also served to kick off the construction phase of the Campus Center Project.

Stage one of the Campus Center Project included the initial phase of the Pavilion renovation and construction of the Frank and Nadine Johnson Family Plaza.

On October 14, 2006, a special dedication ceremony was held to mark completion of the Johnson Family Plaza. Located between the other two components of the Campus Center Project, the Johnson Family Plaza acts as a central corridor for the university’s main campus, providing a picturesque meeting place for the campus community.

The University hosted a special tribute on May 16, 2007, commemorating the many contributions of professor emeritus Dwight Hanawalt and celebrating more than eight decades of memories provided by the university’s Old Gymnasium.

Summer 2007 saw the Old Gymnasium and adjacent Gym West building razed to make room for construction of the Sara & Michael Abraham Campus Center.

On October 20, 2007, more than 400 attended the formal ground breaking ceremony for the Abraham Campus Center. The three-story, 42,000-square foot building will provide space for educational, recreational and communal endeavors where students, faculty, staff, alumni, family, friends and campus visitors can come together.

Thanks to a final flurry of contributions, the university formally announced On December 30, 2007, that it had exceeded its $26.1 million fund-raising goal for the Campus Center Project. In attaining its goal before the end of the 2007 calendar year, ULV met the conditions to qualify for a $600,000 challenge grant from The Kresge Foundation.

Construction of the Abraham Campus Center is scheduled to begin in January 2008.