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GVSU opens new Holton-Hooker Center

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Students have returned to Grand Valley State University in record numbers. Roughly 6,300 are calling the Allendale campus home. That’s up 150 students from last year. With year-over-year enrollment increasing, GVSU has opened a new learning and living student.

Grand Valley State University broke ground on its $37 million Holton-Hooker Learning and Living Center in September 2015. Today the 135,000-square-foot building consists of 240 bedrooms housing 500 students. The four story, multi-purpose building includes three classrooms, a computer lab, study spaces, laundry, game room and faculty offices. There’s adjacent outdoor recreational space, too.

The Holton-Hooker Learning and Living Center also displays 200 artworks that GVSU President, Thomas Haas, says “is a reflection of the diversity and multiculturalism within Grand Valley's campus culture.”

Patrick Center, WGVU News.

Patrick joined WGVU Public Media in December, 2008 after eight years of investigative reporting at Grand Rapids' WOOD-TV8 and three years at WYTV News Channel 33 in Youngstown, Ohio. As News and Public Affairs Director, Patrick manages our daily radio news operation and public interest television programming. An award-winning reporter, Patrick has won multiple Michigan Associated Press Best Reporter/Anchor awards and is a three-time Academy of Television Arts & Sciences EMMY Award winner with 14 nominations.