Funding has been approved for a new events center at Sacramento State that could be hosting indoor athletics, live entertainment and guest speakers as soon as fall 2024. (Video player above: President of Sac State’s entrepreneur club talks global entrepreneurship week)The university announced the secured funds on Thursday in a release and said the new facility is part of first-year Sacramento State President Luke Wood’s vision to better serve the campus community and to bring the Sacramento regional community onto campus. The Union WELL Inc.’s board of directors came to a unanimous decision on Wednesday to approve a resolution to provide up to $5.2 million from reserve funds for the project. Union Well Inc. oversees the University Union and The WELL fitness and health facilityThe university will be paying an estimated $300,000 for the project design. Sacramento State’s student governing body, Associated Students Inc., passed a resolution in favor of the project on Nov. 9, according to the release. The project will expand upon the design of The WELL, which already hosts four indoor courts for recreational and intramural sports. | MORE | California State University trade workers strike across stateThe courts will still be utilized for recreational sports but will be surrounded by seats that can be rolled out and retracted to accommodate crowds for NCAA sporting events. It is still unclear what the seating capacity at the new event center will be, but new lights, scoreboards, video boards and a public address system are included in the plan. “The (Union WELL) board’s decision demonstrates that we are on the rise,” President Wood said. “Sacramento State is the only public university in the capital of the state with the fifth-largest economy in the world, and we are acting like it. I’m grateful that the Union WELL board supported our vision to position our University to better support student intercollegiate athletics, club sports, and recreation sports, and arts and culture.”
Funding has been approved for a new events center at Sacramento State that could be hosting indoor athletics, live entertainment and guest speakers as soon as fall 2024.
(Video player above: President of Sac State’s entrepreneur club talks global entrepreneurship week)
The university announced the secured funds on Thursday in a release and said the new facility is part of first-year Sacramento State President Luke Wood’s vision to better serve the campus community and to bring the Sacramento regional community onto campus.
The Union WELL Inc.’s board of directors came to a unanimous decision on Wednesday to approve a resolution to provide up to $5.2 million from reserve funds for the project. Union Well Inc. oversees the University Union and The WELL fitness and health facility
The university will be paying an estimated $300,000 for the project design.
Sacramento State’s student governing body, Associated Students Inc., passed a resolution in favor of the project on Nov. 9, according to the release.
The project will expand upon the design of The WELL, which already hosts four indoor courts for recreational and intramural sports.
| MORE | California State University trade workers strike across state
The courts will still be utilized for recreational sports but will be surrounded by seats that can be rolled out and retracted to accommodate crowds for NCAA sporting events.
It is still unclear what the seating capacity at the new event center will be, but new lights, scoreboards, video boards and a public address system are included in the plan.
“The (Union WELL) board’s decision demonstrates that we are on the rise,” President Wood said. “Sacramento State is the only public university in the capital of the state with the fifth-largest economy in the world, and we are acting like it. I’m grateful that the Union WELL board supported our vision to position our University to better support student intercollegiate athletics, club sports, and recreation sports, and arts and culture.”
