The Penn Stater Magazine

Penn State Welcomes the Katz Building

December 24, 2008 at 10:34 am Tina Hay Leave a comment

The new Katz Building, as seen from East Halls, across Park Avenue.

For whatever reason, I don’t seem to have much occasion to drive down the Park Avenue Extension between the Nittany Lion Inn and the stadium. But I happened to be driving that way the other night and was astounded to see the new Katz Building, the University Park home of the Dickinson School of Law, all lit up and looking very close to being completed. I don’t know how that managed to sneak up on me. (Clearly I need to get out more.) I went home and got my camera and took a few pictures.

And then, sure enough, we got a news release yesterday saying that the Katz Building is indeed finished and that the University Park-based Dickinson folks moved into their new digs on Monday. Students will begin taking classes there in the Spring Semester, which starts next month. The building is located across from East Halls in an area formerly occupied by a parking lot (and maybe a bit of the Flower Gardens, though I think the vast majority of the Flower Gardens are still intact). Click on either of the two photos here to see a larger version.

We’ll have to put this stunning new building on the list to cover in some way in a future issue of the magazine. In the meantime, here’s a link to a photo of what the building looks like during the day—or did, at an earlier stage in its construction.

Tina Hay, editor

Entry filed under: Dickinson School of Law, University Park campus. Tags: Flower Gardens, Katz Building.