Chandler-Gilbert Community College Coyote Center

Chandler, Arizona

Project Info

  • Client

    Maricopa Community College District

  • Size

    77,000 SF

  • Delivery method

    CMAR

  • Role on project

    Prime Architect

  • Project Completion:

    2014

  • Project Budget:

    $18M

  • DFDG Team Members
  • Michael Schmitt

    Project Director

  • Becky Tomasek

    Interior Design

The Coyote Center serves as the campus beacon and welcoming "front door" for the CGCC campus.

The original campus plan resulted in a somewhat introverted site, with buildings internally oriented toward a central green space. The Coyote Center represents the college’s first outward welcoming gesture, integrating it more effectively with the surrounding community.

True to its “front-door” architecture, the Coyote Center houses the Student Services One Stop Shop. Here, prospective, new, and current students can access all enrollment, testing, advisement, counseling, veteran, and career services in one convenient location. The building also accommodates the CGCC Coyotes athletic teams and their recreational/academic fitness programs. The new gymnasium, designed to support NJCAA basketball competition for both men and women, shares a lobby and gathering space with the One Stop Shop.

Additional athletic and recreation facilities include locker and shower rooms to support indoor and outdoor sports, a fitness training room, an outdoor fitness area, a human performance lab, a multipurpose group fitness room, an athletic study room, and administrative offices for CGCC’s Student Services and athletic programs.

Designed in collaboration with Opsis Architecture.

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