Cornish College of the Arts is pleased to announce the launch of its newest construction project – the building of a new residence hall and learning center at 2025 Terry Avenue (the corner of Lenora Street and Terry Avenue).
The new 20-story building was designed by the architecture firm Ankrom Moisan, with Capstone Development Partners as the project developer and manager and Howard S. Wright as general contractor for the construction. The new hall is slated to be complete in the fall of 2015 and will replace the two Cornish residence halls currently in use on 7th and 8th Avenues.
In addition to 16 floors of resident rooms, the new hall will feature a community kitchen and great room, fitness and media studios, laundry facilities, plus live-in apartments for the supervisory staff and office space for the Housing and Residential Life offices. The building will also contain more than 16,000 square feet of space on its first and second floors specifically designed for classes, workshops and other on-site learning activities. In addition to housing students from Cornish, the building will also be a residence for students who attend City University, per a lease agreement between the two schools.
“This new building will give our incoming students a beautiful new place to live and learn right in the very heart of our downtown campus,” says Cornish College President Nancy Uscher. Bruce McKee, principal of Capstone adds, “We are delighted to be partnering with Cornish College to create a residence hall that will enhance the on-campus experience for both its new and returning students.”
- The official groundbreaking ceremony will take place on Tuesday, March 18, at 3:00 p.m. adjacent to the construction site, on the corner of Lenora and Terry in the Denny Triangle neighborhood of downtown Seattle.
- The 3:00 p.m. groundbreaking will be the time for the press to take photos at the perimeter of the construction site.
- A by-invitation-only reception will follow the groundbreaking ceremony.
For more information about the groundbreaking, please contact Gretchen Douma, interim director of communications at Cornish College of the Arts at 206-726-5169 or by email at gdouma@cornish.edu.