Demolition Planned for Regents Court
A 35-year-old building at Cal Lutheran University will come down in January to make way for a new humanities building and a lecture hall slated for completion later in the year.
University officials will kick off construction of the new humanities center during a sign-raising celebration at 4 p.m. Friday. The 25,000-square-foot brick-and-stucco humanities building will house 16 classrooms, 30 faculty offices, conference rooms and an art gallery.
The building and a new 2,200-square-foot lecture and recital hall will frame a small courtyard on Memorial Parkway at the entrance to the school’s Academic Village. Both will be styled along the lines of the university’s recently built Ahmanson Science Center.
The $4-million construction project is being funded by a $1-million grant from the Ahmanson Foundation, $350,000 from the Weingart Foundation and 37 gifts and pledges to the university ranging from $1,000 to $250,000.
The building scheduled for demolition, known as Regents Court, is one of Cal Lutheran’s original structures, built in the early 1960s.
Regents Court currently houses the school’s health and counseling services center, programs for reentry students and offices for faculty in the philosophy, religion, French and English departments.
Programs and departments housed at Regents Court will be moved to other parts of the campus or to temporary buildings prior to its demolition.
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