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By Cindy Riley
In Huntsville, Ala., crews are working on a $60 million, 132,000sq.-ft. event center at Alabama A&M University (AAMU). The building will include an arena with a 6,000-person capacity that will host basketball and volleyball games, as well as various university gatherings. “The center will provide the university with a much-needed facility where we can host major functions, such as commencements, convocations, our annual scholarship gala and athletic
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events,” said Andrew Hugine Jr., president of AAMU. “It will be a state-of-the-art facility just off of North Memorial Parkway, and we are thrilled to be making this addition for our students and the community, which will transform the landscape of north Huntsville. “Traveling north on Memorial Parkway is the way many motorists leave the city of Huntsville each day on their way home to destinations as far away as southern Tennessee and beyond,” said Hugine. “Alabama A&M is among the last of the see AAMU page 2
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The project is expected to be completed in 2022.