University of North Florida, University Center

Jacksonville, Florida

Firm

Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc.

Client

State of Florida, Board of Regents

Area

95,000 sq.ft.

Total Cost

$10,500,000

Completion Date

12/1998

Reynolds, Smith and Hills provided architectural, engineering, telecommunications, audiovisual, landscape and interior design services for the new multipurpose educational complex at the University of North Florida. The 95,000-square-foot complex, known as University Center, serves as a for-profit, self-sustaining regional conferencing facility with complete food service, kitchen and dining capabilities.
The mission of the center is to offer professional development, career advancement and life enrichment opportunities through a wide variety of credit and non-credit programs. Satisfaction of this mission is assured by providing 31 separate meeting/conference/teaching rooms, accommodating between 10 and 790 persons, respectively. Each room is served by a full compliment of distance-learning systems and hardware, all reporting back to a central telecommunications head-end room.

Photographers: ©Sue Root Barker/Barker Photographer and ©Neil Rashba Photography

Additional Information

Cost per Sq Ft

$110.00

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