Taking shape

Central Place apartments are quickly taking shape on site.  It is exciting to see the daily progress.  Central place will feature 234 beds primarily 2 - bed/2 - bath apartments renting for $1200 a month per unit.  There will be a few 1-bed 1-bath units renting for $795 a month per unit.  Located in the complex will be Harless Center program spaces, staff, and offices.  Harless Center will oversee the leasing of all apartments, provide resident mentors on each floor, and provide regular programming to residents and WVU students that focuses on the intersection of one's faith, academics, and life to help students grown deeper in their own walk of faith.  Students of all background will be welcomed into this unique living-learning community.  

We continue to lift up our prayers of gratitude for all the persons who are helping to make this dream a reality -- our board of directors, the developer, architects, students, and congregation members.  We also pray for those who labor daily to build the complex and center.  May God look over them in their work.

View of Central Place apartments' construction from porch of
WVU Campus Ministry Center

Views of Central Place Apartments from
First Presbyterian Church, Morgantown

Hopes for Harless Center

When I first learned of the concept of Harless Center approximately seven (7) years ago, I became very excited and engaged because of my experience as an attorney in Morgantown over the last forty-four (44) years.  Harless Center will provide housing for two hundred thirty-four (234) West Virginia University students to help them maintain their moral compass while they go through their college years.  

We have found that so many students who had a good moral compass and were well-grounded when they arrived at WVU, succumbed to drugs, alcohol, or other destructive behavior leading to academic failure within a year or two after arriving on campus.  I have personally represented many students in municipal or magistrate court.  Their parents would always tell me that they did not know what happened to them after arriving at WVU since they did not engage in any of these behaviors in high school. 

Even if the students are not residents of Harless Center, there will be programming most days of the week where they can find a peer group that will support their beliefs and keep them away from risk-taking activities and behaviors that will jeopardize their college career.  This project will provide a safe haven for thousands of WVU students for years to come.  There is nothing similar on campus at this time.  It cannot built soon enough.

Ward Stone, Harless Center Board of Directors