When completed, the campus center, which is being designed byKSS Architects of Princeton and VMDO Architects of Charlottesville,VA will boast an event venue, student dining facility, retail andoffices. "We were particularly intrigued by this project becausethis changes the characteristic of Stockton as an institution,"Andrew Tucker, the project manager, tells GlobeSt.com. "For themost part, students would leave campus over the weekend. Stockton'sdesire was to really make the campus a place where students want tolive and socialize and be there on the weekends."

Tucker continues that "the project is a campus center that isproposed to be a cultural center and a social center for students,faculty and the community at large. It will have a recitalhall-quality theater, an event room that could support a variety ofactivities from dance to performances to banquets to career days.It includes offices for admissions, the bursar and the registrar, acoffee house, game rooms and a bookstore. It's meant to be a placewhere people can live and work and become a center for theinstitution."

According to Tucker and Michael Shatken, the KSS partner incharge of the project, the new campus center will become the mainbuilding on a new campus green and will become a model for futurebuildings at Stockton. "Stockton historically has been a verylinear building that had a long gallery with classrooms and variouswings off this gallery," explains Shatken. "This is the firstsignificant departure from that campus plan. This sets up a newcollege green for the institution. It will be more or less theentrance to the campus, and the head building of what will becomethe new campus green as new buildings are constructed."