Between April and June 2015, the NCSU Bookstore will be moving from its current location in Harrelson to the Talley Student Building. Delays in construction prevented the original plan of transitioning in late 2014. The Talley project is now scheduled to be completed in Spring 2015.
In addition to a change in inventory, the new store will also be getting a redesign, operating under the new name Wolfpack Outfitters.
The new bookstore will contain “new and exciting expansions of our merchandise offerings,” according to Pat Hofmeister, director of NC State Student Bookstores.
The renovations to Harrelson were completed during June of 2011, only three months after construction began in March. The old bookstore was desmolished in August 2011 with the rest of Talley to make way for the new building.
Three years later, the new Talley building is almost ready to take back the bookstore with greater square footage than its predecessor or the current 19,630 square foot location in Harrelson.
The bookstore, along with other student services, was relocated to the bottom floor of Harrelson in the summer of 2011.
The transition to Talley will not begin until early 2015 and will involve “evaluating store inventory position and marketing the new Wolfpack Outfitters name,” Hofmeister said.
A moving sale is also planned to take place before the transition. It is not currently known what will occupy the space on the bottom floor of Harrelson after the bookstore has vacated.
“So many details are still in the planning stages,” Hofmeister said.
In the meantime, students will still have to purchase their books at Harrelson for fall semester and the upcoming spring semester.
The freshman class of 2019 will be able to purchase all of its books at Wolfpack Outfitters in Talley Student Union.
“I don’t have a problem with [Harrelson], it’s just an ugly building, but it is still a nice location though,” said Lucas Jones, a sophomore in business administration management. “I think it will be nice in Talley because everything else is in it, and it will be nice to have everything finally centralized.”
Other services provided by the NCSU Bookstore have already made the transition to the new Talley building. Wolf Xpress, the copy, printing and fax service formerly located in DH Hill Library, made the transition earlier this year.
Ever since the move to Harrelson, NC State Bookstores have been funded by Campus Enterprises and Talley project student fees, and the renovations have been covered as a part of the Talley project renovation and addition.
In addition to the NCSU Bookstore, Harrelson is also the current home of many important student organizations including the Campus Women’s Center, GLBT Center, Union Activities Board, Student Affairs and Student Government.
These other student organizations will be reopened once the new Talley Student Union is completed in 2015 inside the new James H. Woodward Student Involvement center, which is named for the eponymous interim chancellor who served briefly in 2009.
The center will be able to support more than 600 student organizations.
Store hours will remain the same as they were in Harrelson, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. on weekdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, and then closed on Sundays.
