Chapel Electric Co.

Architect:

Rossetti Architects

Scope Of Work

The Stroh Center is the home of the Falcon men's and women's basketball and volleyball programs. Itis also a state-of-the-art venue Tor concerts, commencements, lectures, and numerous campus and community events. The facility includes locker rooms, meeting rooms, coaching staff offices for the teams, the BGSU Athletics Hall of Fame, the Falcon's Nest Team Store, a ticket office, and the Schmidthorst Pavilion. The building opened in September 2011, seats 4,387 people for basketball and volleyball games and 5,209 for convocation events and concerts. The Stroh Center was designed by Rossetti Architects of Southfield, Michigan and the Cleveland office of the URS Group Inc. engineering firm. A major goal of the construction was to replicate the intimacy of Anderson Arena, while providing athletes and spectators the modern comforts of a state-of-the-art convOcation center. To accommodate this the Stroh Center was built in a theatre-in-the-round design, providing an open walkway allowing spectators to walk completely around the facility without missing the event on the stadium floor The arena also includes 88 courtside seats and the furthest seat in the arena, 60 feet (18 m) from the court, is only 5 feet (1.5 m) further from the furthest seat at Anderson Arena. The seat widths at the Stroh Center range from 19-22 inches, while the largest seat at Anderson was only 18 inches. The arena also has four restrooms each at the north and south ends of the arena (two for women, one for men and one for families) and provides four concession areas in the open walkways.