Ferris State’s new residence hall is on track to open ahead of the incoming fall semester.

Stadium Hall, which is located on the north side of Top Taggart Field, is the university’s newest dorm since 2017.

According to university officials, a grand opening ceremony is being planned for late August.

“Right after I made it to Ferris State, one thing that I realized very early is that our learning spaces are very state of the art, but our living spaces concerned me,” President Pink said. “The deeper we looked into that, the more we saw that we have living spaces on this campus built in the 1960s. That's not good enough for our students.”

The four-story building holds 280 beds and costs a total of $38 million. It will serve as the second freshmen-only residence hall on campus, joining the newest addition, North Hall.

Along with standard suite-style housing, the building will also house six hotel-style rooms on the lower level. These cordoned-off rooms will be used to house university guests, such as board members and interview candidates, who visit.

“When you have someone who comes and is here for an interview to look for a job, we don't have to put them down the street at one of our hotels here,” Pink said. “We can put them here right on campus. You've got the fitness center very close to you, two eating halls about the same distance from that space, and you've got the best football team in the country playing just a few feet away from you. So, you've got all those amenities.”

Stadium Hall is one of two new buildings slated to open this fall. The other is the new Jim Crow Museum, which is opening on Sept. 30.

To hear more from President Pink on Stadium Hall and other new projects on campus, check out this Behind the Bulldogs podcast episode on Spotify here: Summer EP 8: Future of Facilities at Ferris State. Other platforms include YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and WBRN.com.

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