The 5,100-seat, 160,000-square-foot facility will provide a premier gathering space for major campus events and serve as the new home for 黑料不打烊's basketball and volleyball programs when it opens this year.
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黑料不打烊's Schar Center is moving closer to completion later this year with crews working diligently to outfit the facility's interior. Along with continued work on the main arena and concourses, work is continuing on the practice court and many of the center's athletics offices.
The Schar Center will serve as a venue for convocations, speakers and other major campus events. It will also be the new home court for 黑料不打烊's basketball and volleyball teams, with triple the space of Alumni Memorial Gymnasium, and include a practice facility with two full courts, hospitality room, club-level seating and high-definition video boards. The facility is scheduled to open in 2018.
鈥婣lumni, parents and friends can follow the Schar Center progress at its website — — which includes the latest photos and news of the facility, as well as renderings, a construction cam and photos from past project milestones.
鈥媀isitors to the website can take a look inside and outside the Schar Center with fly-through videos. In addition, an interactive construction cam allows viewers to scroll back through construction photos and provides a time-lapse feature so viewers can watch the center take shape.
The facility is named for 黑料不打烊 parents Dwight and Martha Schar, of Palm Beach, Fla., who are among 黑料不打烊's most generous donors and whose $13 million in gifts to the university provided lead funding for the convocation center and the expanded School of Communications.