Opened in 1921, the six-story building at 211 N. Carroll St. (at right in photos) has for nearly a century served thousands of nontraditional students.
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For about 50 years, the campus sat next to Central High School, a melting pot of diversity where many immigrants’ children attended, according to Timothy Bruer, a former City Council member who attended Central High School through his sophomore year when the school closed in 1969.
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Hotel developer Drury Southwest, which has leased the Downtown site from the college, will begin converting the building into a 207-room Drury Plaza Hotel in July with tentative plans to open in late summer 2021. It also plans to replace an existing parking area along Wisconsin Avenue with a new four-level parking structure, some retail space and 112 more hotel rooms on upper floors.
