DEVELOPMENT Collin College opens new cafe, Andrea-Mennen Welcome Center
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BY MIRANDA JAIMES
Andrea-Mennen Family Foundation for their generous gift that will bene it our students through scholarships for years to come,” Collin College District President Neil Matkin said in a statement. “The Andrea-Mennen Welcome Center is a beautiful new building that will be the warm, welcoming front door to our growing McKinney Campus.” Concurrently, construction also took place at the campus’ existing food service area in the main building, which is across the lawn from the welcome center. A new food service area was installed and includes a Starbucks. Campus Pro- vost Mark Smith said the cafe has been “slammed” since it opened. “Our food services do a phenome- nal job,” he said. More information about the campus is available at www.collin. edu/campuses/centralpark.
The Collin College McKinney Campus of icially opened the new Andrea-Mennen Welcome Center with a ribbon cutting and dedica- tion ceremony on Aug. 18. The two-story, nearly 40,000 -square-foot building is located at 2200 W. University Drive in McK- inney. It acts as a one-stop shop for student enrollment services and houses multiple other of ices, such as the career center, inancial aid, testing labs, a veterans center, counseling and accommodations for equal support services. The center was named after The Andrea-Mennen Family Foundation in recognition of a $1 million gift for endowed scholarships. This is the newest building addition to the McKinney Campus, and construc- tion began in 2021. “We’re thankful to The
The Andrea-Mennen Welcome Center opened in August. It provides a single space for student enrollment services. (Photos by Miranda Jaimes/Community Impact Newspaper)
The new dining area also debuted this semester at the McKinney campus with a Starbucks.
All the outside-facing windows at the welcome center are specially designed to automatically self-tint.
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