Funding has been approved for a new events center at Sacramento State that could host indoor athletics, live entertainment and guest speakers as soon as fall 2024. (Video player above: President of Sac State’s Entrepreneurship Club talks about Global Entrepreneurship Week) The university announced secured funding on Thursday in a release, saying the new facility is part of first-year Sacramento State President Luke Wood’s vision to better serve the campus community and bring the Sacramento regional community onto campus. Union WELL Inc.’s board reached a unanimous decision 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 pay 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 the design of The WELL, which already hosts four indoor courts for recreational and intramural sports. | MORE | California State University trade workers are on strike across the state. The courts will still be used for recreational sports, but will be surrounded by seats that can be rolled out and retracted to accommodate spectators for NCAA sporting events. It is still unclear what the capacity of the new event center will be, but new lights, scoreboards, video boards and public address systems are included in the plan. “The (Union WELL) board’s decision shows that we are moving forward,” President Wood said. “Sacramento State is the only public university in the state capital with the fifth largest economy in the world, and we act like it. I am grateful that the Union WELL board supported our vision to position our university to better support student intercollegiate athletics , club sports and leisure sports and art and culture.”
Funding has been approved for a new event center at Sacramento State that could host indoor athletics, live entertainment and guest speakers as soon as fall 2024.
(Video Player Above: President of Sac State’s Entrepreneurship Club Talks About Global Entrepreneurship Week)
The university announced the secured funds Thursday in a release, saying the new facility is part of first-year Sacramento State President Luke Wood’s vision to better serve the campus community and bring the Sacramento regional community onto campus.
Union WELL Inc.’s board reached a unanimous decision Wednesday to approve a resolution to provide up to $5.2 million from reserve funds for the project. Union Well Inc. oversees University Union and WELL fitness and health facilities
The university will pay 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 the design of The WELL, which already hosts four indoor courts for recreational and intramural sports.
| MORE | California State University trade workers are on strike across the state
The courts will still be used for recreational sports, but will be surrounded by seats that can be rolled out and retracted to accommodate spectators for NCAA sporting events.
It is still unclear what the capacity of the new event center will be, but new lights, scoreboards, video boards and public address systems are included in the plan.
“The (Union WELL) board’s decision shows that we are moving forward,” President Wood said. “Sacramento State is the only public university in the state capital with the fifth largest economy in the world, and we act like it. I am grateful that the Union WELL board supported our vision to position our university to better support student intercollegiate athletics , club sports and leisure sports as well as art and culture.”
