Ottawa University to build $19.9M student housing facility in Surprise
Nov 4, 2018, 6:00 PM | Updated: 6:38 pm
(Ottawa University Arizona Photo)
(Ottawa University Arizona Photo)
PHOENIX — Ottawa University Arizona announced plans Friday to build a $19.9 million student housing facility at its campus in Surprise.
The satellite campus of the Kansas-based Christian university will hold a ground-breaking ceremony on Nov. 14.
The campus plans to open the 73,461-square-foot facility by next November.
The four-story building will house up to 312 students.
We are excited to announce our Ground Breaking Ceremony for the OUAZ resident housing building will be 11/14 at 10:30am! Brick by brick our campus is getting bigger! Learn why OUAZ is one of the fastest growing universities in Arizona. Ottawa.edu/OUAZ/leadthepack
Posted by Ottawa University Arizona in Surprise on Wednesday, October 17, 2018
“We are thrilled to be at this stage of our exciting new campus in Surprise,” Chancellor of Ottawa University, Kevin C. Eichner, said in a news release.
“Our partnerships with the City of Surprise and NOVO Development are exemplary and give us great confidence in the impact these first-class facilities will have on our rapidly growing student population,” he said.
The university opened its first Arizona location in the 1970s.
Its first residential campus in Arizona opened in 2017, and the university’s student body grew by more than 50 percent to reach 658 students by the fall of 2018.
“The OUAZ student housing at the civic and recreation campus is the exclamation point to the city council’s strategic plan on higher education,” Mike Hoover, community development liaison for the city of Surprise, said in the release.
