EvCC names new building Cascade Learning Resource Center

Press Release

Release Date: July 7, 2021

Contact: Pat Sisneros, Vice President of College Services, 425-388-9026; psisneros@everettcc.edu

Image: Sketch of the future Cascade Learning Resource Center, courtesy of Mithun Architects.

EVERETT, Wash. – Everett Community College’s newest building will be named Cascade Learning Resource Center.

Cascade Hall was the name of the student center that was destroyed by arson in 1987 along with the college’s library. The fire killed Everett Firefighter Gary Parks.

The EvCC building naming committee liked the connection between the new building and EvCC campus history. EvCC’s Board of Trustees approved the name on June 22.

The name also continues the college tradition of naming buildings after the peaks of the Cascade and Olympic mountain ranges.

The name refers to both a peak in the Cascade Range, Cascade Mountain, and to the entire range located east of campus. The peak has a variety of geographical features, and the building will have a variety of programs and services.

The new 65,000 square foot building will be home to the John N. Terrey Library/Media Center, Tutoring Center, Writing Center, eLearning, Instructional Media Services, the Russell Day Gallery and the Center for Transformative Teaching.

The Cascade Learning Resource Center is scheduled to open in April 2023. The building will replace the college’s current Library Media Center, which was built in 1988 after the arson. Since then, the number of students educated at EvCC has nearly tripled. The current library lacks room for students and tutoring resources.

The general contractor for this project is Mortenson, who constructed EvCC's Gray Wolf Hall and Whitehorse Hall, as well as the Seattle University's Lemieux Library expansion and the University of Washington Odegaard Undergraduate Learning Center renovation.