UNIVERSITY PARK/CENTRE COUNTY, Pa — The multimillion-dollar renovation of an iconic Penn State building is nearing its finish. The Willard Building has received a forty-plus-million dollar makeover, and has put most of the college’s media all in one place.

The building will now feature the previously off-campus TV studio, and will now have most of the student-run media on campus, including the Centre County Report, Daily Collegian, Commradio, Commagency and more.

Marie Hardin, the Dean of the Bellisario College of Communications, says moving to campus was a long-time coming.

“It was my dream when we started thinking about a new media center, to have that media center as close to the heart of campus as we could get, so we wanted to make this a magnet, for students and faculty and the community, and so we couldn’t be happier with the location.”

Dean Hardin also looks forward to alumni returning to see the same building they know on the outside, and be blown away when they walk inside

"This building is designed to really be an open, creative, collaborative and entrepreneurial space, and so everything is sort of designed to flow from one thing to another, so the studios, our innovation lab, our teaming spaces, our news lab, our newsroom, it's all designed to flow and work together."

She says that the best part of this new building is the collaborative opportunities it creates.

"I'm really excited to think about some of the older alumni who are going to come back to campus, they're going to see the Willard Building, they're going to walk inside, and they're going to see what, you know, what the new educational experience is for Penn State students here in Willard."

The building will be good to go for the fall semester.

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