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 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ's basketball and volleyball programs when it opens this year.
The interior finishes that will make ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Schar Center truly stand out as a state-of-the-art facility are taking shape as work continues to progress on the 5,100-seat, 160,000-square-foot arena.
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 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’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 fall 2018.
Alumni, parents and friends can follow the Schar Center progress at its website —www.elon.edu/scharcenter — which includes the latest photos and news of the facility, as well as renderings, a construction cam and photos from past project milestones.
Visitors 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 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ parents Dwight and Martha Schar of Palm Beach, Fla., who are among ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’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.