YSU to begin $13.7M renovation of student center

By DENISE DICK

denise_dick@vindy.com

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Work is expected to start May 23 on a $13.7 million project to renovate Kilcawley Center at Youngstown State University.

The project is expected to take about 15 months to complete and will be done in phases, said Matthew Novotny, Kilcawley Center director.

Jack Fahey, interim vice president of student affairs, said the building as it is now doesn’t function well for students.

“It’s not attractive to them,” he said. “It’s not a building that provides them with good service.”

A university’s student center is supposed to be a living room of the campus, Fahey said. It’s supposed to draw the community in and be easy to find your way around in.

“It’s been so long since it’s had a renovation, it’s very, very difficult to find your way around and it’s started to show its age,” he said.

Other universities with which YSU competes have renovated their student centers, and YSU must remain competitive and provide better service for students, the interim vice president said.

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