Educational
- Client: Grace College
- Architect: Design Collaborative
- Facility Type: Educational
- Location: Winona Lake, IN
- Date Completed: 9/2005
- Cost: $9.1 Million
For more information contact Jeremy Ringger Grace College is an evangelical Christian liberal arts college. With 52 academic majors, 38 minors, and a student-to-faculty ratio of 16 to 1, Grace offers an idyllic campus setting for students interested in career and graduate school preparation as well as the integration of biblical faith and learning.
Initial construction of the community center, which is located on the north side of the Grace campus, involved cleaning up an adjacent four-acre brownfield and converting it into a parking lot. The brownfield was contaminated by a former industrial site and had been idle for 30 years. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management was integrally involved in this cleanup process, which was completed in the fall of 2005.
The 60,000-square foot community center now meets the needs of businesses and organizations that hold events with an audience of up to 2,800 people, such as business meetings and seminars, trade shows and exhibitions, musical events and concerts, home, boat and craft shows, and athletic events. This building is the new home of the Lancer basketball and volleyball teams. The space can be configured in any one of the following ways to meet the needs of an event:
- 2,700-seat theatre and chapel
- 2,500-seat venue for concerts and special events
- 2,100-seat arena for intercollegiate activities
- 2,500-seat seminar facility with breakout rooms
- 15,000-square-foot convention and exhibition center
- Floor named Kessler Court after head men's basketball coach, Jim Kessler