Kingdom expansion continues: Construction update
Posted by The Skyliner on January 28th, 2009Leasy Sandal
Staff Writer
Carolina First Bank and Einstein Bagels are now open for business! The bank offers a convenient location for students attempting to maintain their finances while Einstein Bagels provides hot coffee for those who are seeking warmth on cold winter days.
The building housing all of the university’s recent improvements, the Eddie Runion Creative Arts Center, is also anticipating the opening of the second floor. Construction was slightly delayed due to elevator complications. The elevator, set to be installed on Jan. 26, will complete the Runion building and open the second floor classrooms.
Directly next to the Runion building stands the 3,000 sq. ft. Rosti building. The building is being renovated to become the new art studio for students. It will provide a gallery in which students will be able to display and sell their pieces.
The generous grant for the building was provided by Zelda Rosti, who requested the building be called Studio at ‘Ole 414. A few of the university’s art classes have been moved into the Studio at ‘Ole 414 but most of the equipment necessary for the students has not yet been purchased.
The theatre students will be excited to discover a new theatre is in the works to be completed by the end of this year. Alex Miller, vice president for university advancement, referred to the new building as a “black box theatre.”
The old Tigerville elementary school will be completed at the same time as the Billingsley Theatre. The renovated building will provide classrooms and special areas for theatre students to build sets.
Preliminary drawings have been presented to Architect Bob Cashion for the Christian Worldview Center. The new building, which is scheduled to open in 2010, will hold classrooms for Christian Studies and provide new offices for Dr.
Tony Beam, vice president for student services, and Dr. Allen McWhite, director for global missions.
McWhite is enthusiastic about the new building because it will provide necessary training procedures to prepare students and local church mission teams for evangelism.
“It is going to enable us to do more in preparing our students cross culturally. It is going to enable us to develop a research center here where hopefully it will place North Greenville as a leader in the southeast in training and equipping missionaries,” McWhite said.
Rev. Joe Hayes, Jr., executive director for development, is the brain behind all of the operations going on throughout campus.
“We’re going to continually build in Tigerville. We’re praying about it, about the possibilities,” Hayes said.