The Lone Star College Montgomery campus’s new student services center is anticipated to be fully completed and in use by late February or early March, which will better aid students at the campus, LSC Montgomery President Rebecca Riley said.

When it opens, the new student services center will have two parts—a conference center, which will be available to community members to rent out, and the student part of the building, which will house counseling, advising, financial aid, business office and a testing center. The building will have a coffee bar as well, Riley said.

Riley said the new building’s structure is complete at this time, but supply chain issues have caused a slight delay as the college is waiting on audio-visual equipment and computers, and some furniture remains to be moved in.

“It is caught up in shipping delays or trucking shortages,” Riley said. “We hope that all of those problems will be resolved within the next two months.”

Riley said the design of the building is unconventional because most students use either a phone or laptop for class selections when registering and as such usually do not need more than a few minutes with an adviser. The new building is designed to have a back office space where advisers will be housed, but the rest of the space will be open and have tablets and computers so students can begin their registration process.