{"id":52453,"date":"2011-12-15T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=52453"},"modified":"2011-12-16T09:14:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T14:14:31","slug":"grand-re-opening-for-health-center-co-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/12\/grand-re-opening-for-health-center-co-op\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Re-opening for Health Center Co-op"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom: 18px\">[flickr-gallery id=&#8221;72157628442190585&#8243;]<\/div>\n<p>The UConn Co-op celebrated the grand opening of its new Health Center Bookstore Thursday, drawing a crowd that spilled out into the hallway outside its new first-floor location.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Austin, interim vice president for health affairs, congratulated the students whose push for a new student lounge led to the relocation and renovation of the Co-op. The lounge has been upgraded and expanded to include the ground-floor space that had been occupied by the bookstore until late this summer. The new Co-op has an additional 500 square feet of retail space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really a collaborative effort getting the Health Center working together with the Co-op in putting this project together\u201d says Co-op division manager Dirk Fecho. \u201cWe\u2019re really happy to be able to present this bookstore, which is what we feel the medical, dental and graduate schools really deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The day also marked the eighth anniversary of the Co-op assuming the management of the Health Center\u2019s bookstore. Festivities included live music, refreshments, raffles, discounted merchandise, and an appearance by Jonathan the Husky mascot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new space is significantly nicer and certainly bigger than it was before, and I think it helps make a nice statement for the Health Center,\u201d says Co-op General Manager and President Bill Simpson. \u201cWe finally have a store that I think reflects the quality of the institution and the mission of the institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new lounge and new bookstore, along with a new student parking lot, are the <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/blog\/2011\/09\/student-only-parking-highlights-changes-at-health-center\/\">primary changes made for the benefit of students this year<\/a> under the leadership of Health Center Chief Administrative Officer Carolle Andrews and Dr. Suzanne Rose, senior associate dean for education.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bookstore celebrates its relocation to larger, newly renovated space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":52466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[57,2010],"class_list":["post-52453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 03:55:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52453"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52468,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52453\/revisions\/52468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/52466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52453"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=52453"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=52453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}