Metro State announces $30M center
By Joanne Kelley, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published January 4, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.
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Metropolitan State College of Denver announced plans for a hotel and learning center that will cost between $30 million and $35 million to build.
Scheduled to open on its Auraria campus in the fall of 2010, the project calls for 150 to 200 guest rooms, restaurant, meeting and banquet space, and the hotel learning center.
Metro State said it will become one of the 10 or so colleges in the nation to host a hotel on campus.
The school will begin seeking bids for the hotel's management contract as early as February. It will also offer individuals and corporations opportunities for naming the learning centers and various public spaces and facilities.
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