Stark State College

From The Canton Repository:

ALLIANCE
As symbolized by Stark State College’s red, white and blue logo mounted on a recently constructed building, higher education has a new location in this city.
The college’s recently constructed Alliance Satellite Center debuted this week inside this 10,000-square-foot facility.
The center, located a block north of Alliance Community Hospital at 1725 S. Arch Ave., contains three lecture classrooms, three computer laboratories and a multipurpose laboratory.
There also is a student lounge equipped with 13 desk-top computers so students can study while not in class. The building also contains some offices on its east side.
Alliance Community Hospital actually owns the building and has a 10-year lease with the college.
This is one of Stark State’s satellite projects, giving the college a presence in downtown Canton, Barberton, Carrollton and Alliance. Stark State’s main campus is in Jackson Township.
“Our thrust is we are bringing high-quality education in an accessible way,” said Marisa Rohn, public relations officer for Stark State. “I think people appreciate having the opportunity to attend college right in their backyard. It is based on the demands of the community.”
It is the school’s introduction to Alliance. The college has been operating a satellite outreach in this city at leased space in the 1200 block of W. State Street.
“All of the summer sessions that were on State Street have moved here,” said Jessica Grimes, coordinator of Stark State’s Alliance satellite. “We still have computers and stuff in the building that will be moved here.”
The new satellite center sits on a portion of the site of the former Alliance Community Hospital complex. That old complex was razed. Alliance Community Hospital moved out in 2006 and operates in the new facility in the 200 block of E. State Street.
A Warren-based architectural firm, Baker, Bednar Snyder & Associates, designed the facility. Prime contractor was an area company, Fred Olivieri Construction.
“It was done to sort of match the character of the hospital campus,” said Nathan Aleskovsky of the architectural firm that designed the project. “It is the exact same brick and stone. We tried to use the same proportion for the windows.”
The largest chamber is the multipurpose laboratory. That room is about 1,225 square feet and is in the center of the structure.
“It is multipurpose lab,” Aleskovski said. “Any sort of science-based classes that are hands-on I would assume go in that room.”