Spelman College received the largest gift from living donors in its 137-year history, a $30 million donation from long-standing Spelman trustee Ronda Stryker and spouse William Johnston.
The school said it will use the gift to help build the Center for Innovation & the Arts, the college’s first new academic facility since 1996.
Chicago architect, Jeanne Gang, founding principal of the firm Studio Gang, has completed a schematic design of the 85,000-square-foot building that will occupy a current parking lot at Spelman at the corner of Westview Drive and Lee Street, according to a Spelman news release.
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