University Celebrates Pelham Redevelopment Project

Robert Snyder, managing director of Mount Vernon Campus Life and Marketing; President Steven Knapp; Gina Fernandes, presidential administrative fellow with Campaign GW; Cynthia Steele Vance, MVC ’79, GW Board of Trustees member; and Scott Crawford, president of the Residence Hall Association, at the celebration for the Pelham Redevelopment Project.

The GW and Mount Vernon community, including President Steven Knapp, celebrated the Pelham Redevelopment
Project on the Mount Vernon Campus
April 3.

Slated to open in fall 2010, the new building will enhance the living and learning experience on campus with 287 student beds and three apartments for professional staff, meeting rooms, a fitness/exercise space, a dining hall, a student theater space, and recording, dance, music and digital media, and fine arts studios.

At the event, participants gathered under a white tent bordering the project site. Robert Snyder, GW managing director of Mount Vernon Campus Life and Marketing, emceed the event, introducing speakers Scott Crawford, president of the Residence Hall Association; Gina Fernandes, presidential administrative fellow with Campaign GW; and Cynthia Steele Vance, MVC ’79, GW Board of Trustees member. The audience also enjoyed a performance by GW student theater company Forbidden Planet Productions.

The celebration concluded with a ceremonial concrete pouring by Dr. Knapp, Vance, Executive Vice President and Treasurer Louis Katz, and other staff and student representatives.

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