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Marymount University said it plans to renovate a historic building that\u2019s sat empty in recent years into a new campus center, with a Barnes & Noble bookstore, gathering space and a cafe.<\/p>\n

A $2.8 million gift from the Reinsch Pierce Family Foundation is fully funding the new, 6,240-square-foot Reinsch Pierce Family Campus Hub, a university spokesman said. It will house a Barnes & Noble student bookstore, a \u201cspirit shop\u201d with university merchandise, Lola\u2019s Caf\u00e9 and space for faculty, students and visitors.<\/p>\n

The former Ireton Hall has sat empty for more than two years in the center of the Catholic, liberal arts university’s main campus in Arlington. Before that, it had housed classrooms and other university department space since originally standing as the site of horse stables on a 1920 estate.<\/p>\n

The project\u2019s architect is D.C. firm Ayers Saint Gross, while D.C.-based Bennett Group is leading construction as contractor. Renovations have already started, with a completion date slated for the early fall of this year, per the university.<\/p>\n

The cafe, which will serve as a dining and social space for students focused on healthy food choices, is named after Lola Reinsch<\/a>, president of the Reinsch Pierce Family Foundation. She\u2019s also served on the university\u2019s board of trustees for roughly 30 years and is CEO of Arlington-based Reinsch Cos., a real estate development and property management firm \u2014 and, in a statement, pointed to this as the latest in her family’s \u201cmultigenerational support of Marymount,\u201d crucial she said as the only university that calls Arlington home.           <\/p>\n

The foundation had previously given $1 million toward the construction of the Emerson G. Reinsch Library and $1 million for a courtyard at the Ballston campus<\/a>. President Irma Becerra<\/a>, in a statement, called this latest donation “transformational” for the school’s way of life.<\/p>\n

Other ongoing construction projects on Marymount\u2019s campus include a new preschool<\/a> inside the library, which is scheduled to open later this year. The university has also proposed building new athletic facilities<\/a> on county land near its campus in the Old Dominion neighborhood \u2014 a project that a university official told the Washington Business Journal last year would be as part of a broader community-accessible green space<\/a> to replace a current salt dome.<\/p>\n

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Read the original story on the Washington Business Journal’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  Marymount University said it plans to renovate a historic building that\u2019s sat empty in recent years into a new campus center, with a Barnes & Noble bookstore, gathering space and a cafe. A $2.8 million gift from the Reinsch Pierce Family Foundation is fully funding the new, 6,240-square-foot Reinsch Pierce Family Campus Hub, a […]<\/p>\n

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