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GVSU Seidman Milestone
Date: February 21, 2012
GVSU celebrates milestone in construction of Seidman Center
Published: Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 11:26 AM Updated: Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 11:55 AM
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Sonja Johnson says Grand Valley State University’s new L. William Seidman Center will provide another boost to the university’s campus in downtown Grand Rapids.
On Tuesday morning, Johnson, who serves as the executive director of GVSU’s Van Andel Global Trade Center, stopped by the building and commemorated a milestone in its construction. She signed the beam that will be used to complete the steel skeleton of the building, which is scheduled to open in May 2013.
“It’s just a great undertaking,” Johnson said. “There’s a lot of work that’s went in from the university from all different directions.”
Students and staff from throughout GVSU are expected to follow suit and sign the beam today. It will be lifted into place around 1:30 p.m., just after President Thomas Haas and Seidman College of Business Dean H. James Williams place their signatures on it.
Activity around the beam this morning caught the attention of Chelsea Cooper, a 21-year-old criminal justice major at GVSU. She signed the beam after asking construction workers what the occasion was.
“I just think it’s cool that it's going to be in the building, and it’s going to be in the building as long as it’s there,” Cooper said.
The $40 million building is four-stories, 120,000-square-feet, and will provide new space for the GVSU’s Seidman College of Business and house GVSU’s Small Business and Technology Development Center.
