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Nittany Mall is an enclosed regional shopping mall in College Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, serving the State College area.It is located at the intersections of Route 150 and Route 26, one mile off the I-99 corridor.
State College is located at the junction of Interstate 99/U.S. Route 220 and U.S. Route 322. I-99/US 220 head north to an interchange with Interstate 80 and south towards Altoona. US 322 heads west along with I-99/US 220 and east towards Harrisburg. U.S. Route 322 Business passes east–west through State College on Atherton Street.
Construction began on the 70-acre Colonnade at State College shopping center in the fall of 1999. Target, Wegmans, Dick's Sporting Goods, Michaels, Circuit City, and a 14-screen Carmike Cinemas were all set to be among the earliest tenants however, Carmike would be forced to back out due to its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in the summer of 2000 (they eventually came out of bankruptcy two years ...
The area's special living options are First-Year Interest in Liberal Arts and Education and Tri-Service ROTC. All of the buildings in the East Halls residence area are named after former governors of Pennsylvania. [1] All of the halls and commons within East Halls are connected via an underground maintenance tunnel system (entrance doors locked).
US 322 Bus. was signed as US 322 until 1981, when the Mount Nittany Expressway, a freeway bypass of US 322, was built north of State College. [2] [3]US 322 Bus. now serves as the main east–west thoroughfare in State College, and the section in State College is named Atherton Street in honor of George W. Atherton, former president of the Pennsylvania State University.
Old Main, c. 1855. The school that later became Penn State University was founded as a degree-granting institution on February 22, 1855, by act P.L. 46, No. 50 of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania.
Frederick Nelson (1932–2009), Professor of Geography and Director of University of Delaware's Permafrost Group; Debra Hess Norris, chair of the art conservation department and director of the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation; David L. Norton (1930–1995), Philosophy; R. Byron Pipes (b. 1941), Mechanical Engineering
The library was named after local businessman Charles Schlow, who in 1957 donated space in a West College Avenue house for the original library. The library quickly grew and moved to a new location on South Allen Street. [1] A new building opened in 2005, replacing the original.