In the student room wings in East Holden, workers are installing ceiling tiles. In West Holden, crews are in the process of removing the lights from the hallways to make way for new lights. Sprinkler systems are being installed throughout the hall.

The new Holden Sparty’s convenience store and coffeehouse is open for business and includes an open, circular counter space for grab & go coffee and condiments. The Holden media room has a few new pieces of furniture, including brightly colored and patterned stools, and stainless steel stools/tables. Flat screen TVs will be installed in the space this week and red, metallic gaming/TV consoles have also been placed throughout the space.

The new Holden Sparty’s convenience store and coffeehouse is scheduled to open for business on November 18. Shelves are fully stocked and the Sparty’s crew is ready to serve its student, faculty, staff and guest customers. Green and blue furniture in the Holden media room is still in the process of being unwrapped and is being placed in the space.

More pieces of colorful, patterned seating have appeared in Holden’s common areas. More lime-green furniture has been moved into the Holden game room and furniture is still being unloaded and set up in the high-tech conference room. The hall’s new Sparty’s has been uncovered, revealing a large, brightly-colored space. The refrigerators and coolers have been moved in, and counters and menu boards have been installed. Sparty’s is scheduled to open yet this month.

Colorful, curved metal pieces have been hung from the hallway ceilings at Holden. Carpet has been installed in the high-tech game room and workers are moving in a variety of pieces of furniture in both the game room and conference room.

Hanging light fixtures have been installed in the game room, along with a couple metallic columns and white and metallic ceiling clouds.

Work crews are busy putting caulking and painting over the newly installed drywall in Holden’s game room. A row of horizontal windows have also been uncovered along the corridor, revealing the progress inside. Crews are currently painting the east wing’s high-tech conference room with bright reds and greens.

In addition to ongoing work in the new Sparty’s and game room, work crews are currently performing electrical work in the high-tech conference room.

New tables and seating have been placed in the center corridor common area of Holden. Work continues on the Sparty’s and high-tech gaming area, and workers are painting two orange ceiling cloud-type structures in the high-tech conference room. Workers have also installed metal ceiling grid work in the high-tech conference room.

Workers are painting, and installing metal wall frames, lights and other fixtures in the Sparty’s C-Store/Coffeehouse hybrid on the west side of Holden, the high-tech gaming area in the center corridor and the multi-media/high-tech conference room on the east side. New, brightly colored chairs and tables have also been added to the west corridor study area.

Work continues on both the Sparty’s C-Store/Coffeehouse hybrid on the west side of Holden, and on the multi-media/high-tech conference room on the east side.

It’s clear that Holden is getting quite a facelift! Colorful, patterned carpet has been laid throughout the student wings, in both lobbies, and in the center corridor. Walls are brightly painted and the West Lobby elevators have a clean, gray finish. Crews are filling all student rooms with sturdy, new furniture, and the red-painted classroom spaces now have a gray with large multi-colored pattern flooring. The Residence Life apartments are beautiful, with classy furnishings and plenty of space. The center corridor is really shaping up as well with benches, tables around select pillars, new light fixtures, and orange, grid-like, curved ceiling pieces.

The West Lobby and corridor continue to be painted and more walls and fixtures are being installed. Utility cables and wires are also being installed throughout the main floor. Most notably, the center area of the main floor is transforming, with new walls installed, painting going on, and a large, flat, decorative hanging light fixture suspended on the ceiling. The classroom walls within have also been painted a deep red color.

The West Lobby and corridor are really beginning to shape up with glass doors installed and walls painted pale blue. The East Lobby and corridor aren’t far behind the West and ceiling light fixtures have been put in throughout the main floor. Spiral metal covers have been placed over columns in the center corridor. Walls throughout the center corridor space have been completed and painted light blue and green, and a round table has been built in the space. Painters have also made their way down to the first floor student rooms, which have been both painted and carpeted.

Paint crews continue to work their way around to the East Lobby, as they paint the exposed ceiling utility pipes black. Workers continue to install metal wall frames in the center corridor and sparks fly as workers cut and shape pieces of metal for the project. Drywall is being painted white in the West Lobby and workers are smoothing East Lobby drywall with caulk.

On the main floor, crews have painted Holden’s first floor, open ceiling black, revealing the ceiling pipes and fixtures on the West side and part of the center corridor. They are working their way around to the East lobby. Columns in both the West and East lobbies have also been covered with a spiral, metal covering. Workers continue to work on erecting the new metal wall frames in the center corridor before insulating, covering with drywall and finishing. Insulation and drywall has been installed in the East lobby and crews are cleaning the floors.

In the first floor corridor, high-impact drywall has been added to the metal frames to form the shell of new residence life staff apartments. Ceiling utility fixtures continue to be installed and much progress has been made to the center corridor. Walls and frames have been erected to change the shape of the ceiling and interior of the space to make way for the new Sparty’s, game room and more. Work continues on the classrooms on the east side of Holden’s first floor and the East lobby and study lounge. On the sixth floor, colorful, patterned carpet has been laid and workers are working their way down to install psychedelic-colored stairwell flooring. Workers are also currently patching areas of Holden’s roof.

In the first floor corridor, wall panels have been attached to the metal frames and insulation is being installed. What was the East Holden Lobby is full of pipes, machinery and debris. Walls and ceiling utility pipes and fixtures are being installed. Work continues on the center of the corridor on the new Sparty’s and recreational spaces.

Holden paint crews continue to paint their way down the student room floors and fourth floor painting should be completed early next week. The flooring in first floor student rooms and hallways has been torn up and floor protection is being installed on the third floor. Crews are also installing new lighting on the sixth floor.

In the first floor corridor, metal pillar/frames are currently being erected and inserted into the wall tracks laid last week. At the center of the corridor, workers continue to demolish and work on restructuring the space, from floor to ceiling. Workers are also starting to tape and mud the classrooms and wall repair and painting in classrooms will start this week.

Holden work crews are moving old hall light fixtures out to make way for the new energy-efficient fixtures. The sixth floor student rooms and hallways have been painted and the floors are being stripped. Crews are starting to paint the fifth floor and painters are laying down floor protection on the fourth floor. In the main floor corridor, ceiling drain water pipes are being replaced and tracks have been laid where walls will be inserted.

The hall continues to evolve under heavy demolition. The sixth floor student rooms have been painted in earth tone reds, oranges, greens and blues and paint crews are working their way down to the first floor as demolition continues at the core of the first floor corridor.

The hall is currently undergoing heavy demolition. All furniture has been removed from the first floor, floor and ceiling tiles have been removed in some areas, and most notably, walls in the center of the Holden corridor have been removed to make way for the new central reception desk and common area for residents.

Crews are working around the clock and are currently in the demolition phase, removing all furniture from the building. Demolition for an aggressive renovation project began on May 3 and is expected to be completed in mid-September. Project crews are working hard to re-program the hall’s main floor spaces, including all rooms and common spaces running from the East lobby through to the West.