Ezell Center grand opening set for Monday
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Tours of the 77,000-square-foot building, along with music and refreshments, will be offered beginning at 6 p.m. The building features an interactive conference center, television and radio studios, a chapel, an information center for mission opportunities, classrooms, faculty offices and a cutting-edge geothermal heating and cooling system.
The $10.5 million Ezell Center, is named for Miles Ezell Sr., founder of Nashville’s Purity Dairies, and features the Doris Swang Chapel, with a unique stained glass window design; the Bill and Dot Mullican television studios; the J.M. McCaleb Mission Center; the Paul Rogers boardroom; and lecture halls named for Batsell Barrett Baxter and J. P. Sanders.
Whereas local civic, business and religious groups have been using Lipscomb’s facilities for years, the Ezell Center now offers the very latest in learning spaces in the third-floor conference center, offering cutting-edge interactive white boards and rolling tables, chairs and walls that can quickly create several spaces for break-out groups.
The Ezell Center conference space has already been used by the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce this summer, when Jim Morton of Nissan spoke on campus, and by Character Counts, on Sept. 1, to host a talk by the national founder of the ethics enrichment program, Michael Josephson.
The Ezell Center is best accessible from Lipscomb’s southern Belmont Boulevard entrance leading to the softball and baseball fields.