FINNERAL: Syracuse University is scheduled to open the National Veterans Resource Center in the Spring of 2020. Air Force ROTC cadet and Syracuse student, Joseph Wilks says this new facility will be extremely useful for his detachment.
WILKS: We’re pretty much going to be able to do everything. There’s going to be space for PT. All of our classrooms are going to move in there and there’s gonna be a really awesome lounge for us all to be able to meet in.
FINNERAL: According to the Syracuse website, the building will be 115,000 square feet and feature state-of-the-art facilities. Wilks believes having everything in one place will be a big advantage.
WILKS: It’s gonna be a huge upgrade. We are going to be able to move everything together. So everything’s gonna move nice and smooth. We don’t have to be moving back and forth from building to building.
FINNERAL: The new building will not just be the center for veteran life at Syracuse University, but Central New York as a whole. Wilks believes this building will also strengthen the bond between ROTC and the Student Veterans Organization as well as the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs.
WILKS: SVO and OVMA they’re all going to move into this one building and ROTC works with those organizations a lot and again just being able to go right around the office to another door and knock on the door and go in and talk to these people it’s gonna make everything way easier.
FINNERAL: The Syracuse University website has a live stream of the construction footage so you can see the updates on the construction from wherever you are.
FINNERAL: The University predicts that over the course of 5 years the National Veterans Resource Center will generate 300 million dollars in regional economic activity and create over 300 direct and indirect jobs. James Finneral NCC News.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News)– The National Veterans Resource Center at Syracuse University will not just be useful for veterans. Syracuse’s ROTC cadets will also benefit from the building that is scheduled to be finished in the Spring of 2020.
“We’re pretty much going to be able to do everything,” Air Force ROTC cadet Joseph Wilks said. “There’s going to be space for PT. All of our classrooms are going to move in there and there’s gonna be a really awesome lounge for us all to be able to meet in.”
Wilks said it will be much less stressful when all of ROTC’s meetings and activities take place in one building.
