Progress Continues on new Fresno State Student Recreation Center

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Workers continue to make progress on the West Complex/Student Recreation Center at the Save Mart Center at Fresno State.

The $17.6 million building project is a recreational and multipurpose facility designed primarily by students and intended largely for their use. In addition to the recreational areas, the building includes two academic components, the Leon and Pete Peters Educational Center and the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

The two-story, 92,000-square-foot building will have its entrance facing Woodrow Avenue. Sink Combs Dethlefs is the architect and Lewis C. Nelson and Sons is the general contractor.

The building is being financed by a $49 per semester fee referendum passed by the student body in November 2000. The referendum stipulated that the fee increase would not start until opening of the facility. The project is scheduled for completion in December 2005, with the official opening in January 2006.