Headline: VSU Celebrates Opening of Georgia Hall

VSU Celebrates Opening of Georgia Hall
Posted: 9/16/2009

VSU celebrates opening of Georgia Hall, $19.8M project took one year for Juneau Construction Company to complete.

BY Johnna Pinholster
The Valdosta Daily Times

Though Georgia Hall has been home to Valdosta State University students for more than a month now, the newest residence hall on campus had its official ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday.

The $19.8 million facility took approximately one year to build. The six-story residence hall has 191 residential rooms with 494 students currently residing.

Tours of the hall were given and started on the sixth floor in the hall’s multi-purpose room. Tour guide and sixth floor Resident Advisor Josh Williams said the room is used for classes and for events held in the hall.

The windows to the room look out across campus with a bird’s eye view of construction on the new Student Union clearly visible.

The fifth floor study room also looks out across campus, giving students hard at work a brief reprieve from their studies.

The cost of the facility will be paid for through student rent.

Though the dorm’s newness still hasn’t worn off VSU President Patrick Schloss was already discussing the need to build or renovate other halls in the future.

The school has seen an increase in enrollment of more than 900 students this semester, he said, a number that, not to long ago, would have constituted the entire student body at the booming campus.

The growth, even with construction, means the university is still about 60 students over capacity for campus living, he said.

Schloss thanked Juneau Construction and Ambling Development for their continued dedication and work, which is helping to shape the changing landscape of the university.

The residence hall will be home to not only students but the life-changing moments they have on campus, he said. Many students, Schloss predicted, will become engaged on the front steps of the hall; others will make calls home from their dorm rooms to tell parents about bad grades.

Others will make career choices that will define their entire lives within the rooms and halls of Georgia, he said.

Valdosta State Univeristy staff and guests at the ...

Valdosta State University President Dr. Pat Schlos...

Georgia Hall at Valdosta State University.

Pictured are Nancy Juneau, CEO of Juneau Construct...

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