The Tate Center Expansion at the University of Georgia is a full service Student Union in the center of campus. The building design includes a large ballroom, retail, offices, meeting rooms, a 508-space parking deck, five restaurants and a cafeteria. The project is approximately a 100,000 sf addition to the existing Tate Student Center constructed on top of the parking deck. A high pedestrian bridge connects the Tate addition to the nearby Miller Learning Center.
A feature of the Tate Center includes the 12,000 square foot ballroom, which seats about 50 percent more than Georgia Hall, a part of the original 1983 Tate that has now been converted into meeting and office space for student groups, and the ballroom can be subdivided into seven smaller rooms. In addition to meeting and office spaces, the expansion houses a huge third-floor lobby featuring a projection screen about 24 feet across. A 30-foot-wide hall connects the lobby to the older part of the Tate.
Holder also provided technical review, cost evaluation, and schedule evaluation assistance to the design professional team during the design phase. Holder also renovated portions of the existing Tate Center.
This project achieved LEED Gold Certification, becoming the first LEED Certified project on the University of Georgia's campus.