By Angela Gonzales | Phoenix Business Journal
With a $57 million construction project of Ottawa University‘s new Surprise campus completed, Kevin Eichner already is planning the next expansion phase.
Eichner, chancellor of Ottawa University, said he started the 2019 fall school year with 830 students on the campus, a 33% increase over the previous year.
The $19 million residential hall wasn’t quite ready in time for the school year, which meant students were temporarily housed in local hotels and apartments until their rooms were ready by October, he said.
“We just completed our master plan for the remainder of the campus,” Eichner said. “If I had to guess, probably the next building would be the library, student study center, and we need some additional athletic fields.”
