University of Pennsylvania Plans New Jewish Student Center

The University of Pennsylvania has selected construction management firm R.M. Shoemaker Co. of West Conshohocken, Pa., to build Steinhardt Hall, the new Hillel Jewish Student Life Center on the campus of the University. Groundbreaking was scheduled for October 2001. The three-story, 35,000-sf facility will provide a new academic, cultural, and religious complex for the more than 6,000 Jewish students at the University. It will contain a kosher kitchen and 386-seat kosher dining room, a 320-seat auditorium, and a 174-seat Beit Midrash. The complex will also feature seminar rooms, a lounge, student activities center, library, and administrative offices. The project manager is The Staubach Company. Jacobs/Wyper Architects is the architect. Post and Grossbard Inc. is the kitchen designer. The project is slated for completion in December 2002.