Concordia University Wisconsin is preparing for the opening of the school’s new Robert W. Plaster Free Enterprise Center on its Mequon campus.
The three-story, 41,000-square-foot academic building houses Concordia’s business, education, hospitality and event management, and health professions programs.
Concordia will host a building dedication on Aug. 1. The school provided a preview tour of the facility as crews on Thursday put finishing touches on the building.
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- Concordia University’s Robert W. Plaster Free Enterprise Center.
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- The building includes a collaboration space for for student and community-led startups.
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- The new Robert W. Plaster Free Enterprise Center.
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- Crews were installing signage on the new Robert W. Plaster Free Enterprise Center.
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- The new Robert W. Plaster Free Enterprise Center.
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- The entry area of the Robert W. Plaster Free Enterprise Center.
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- The lobby of the center will include a Wisconsin entrepreneur exhibit, featuring an interactive keypad where users can research successful entrepreneurs from Wisconsin.
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- Student study and eating areas in the lobby of the center.
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- Student entrepreneurs will be able to use offices from which they can run their businesses.
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- The Student Government Association has an office on the first floor.
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- · A playground and children’s indoor play area to be used by Concordia’s physical therapy, occupational therapy and other health professions programs.
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- The entry area of the Robert W. Plaster Free Enterprise Center.
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- An open meeting room for faculty.
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- A deliberation room for justice and public policy students.
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- A mock courtroom judge’s desk will be used by the university’s justice and public policy program.
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- A fully-stocked culinary lab will provide hospitality students with commercial kitchen experience.
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- An analytical chemistry lab.
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- A video conference room.
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- A multi-media room for business students.
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- A view from the second floor of the center.
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- Outdoor seating on the second floor of the building.
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- An observation and focus group room.
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- A pediatric therapy room.
Among the building’s features are a “collaboratorium” space for student and community-led startups, a sound booth that will be used by the speech-language pathology program for audiology assessments, a mock courtroom that will be used by the justice and public policy program, a children’s indoor play area to be used by the health professions programs and a culinary lab that will provide hospitality students with commercial kitchen experience.
The building is named after the Robert W. Plaster Foundation, a Missouri-based foundation focused on promoting the free enterprise system through education.
