State Senator Ed Kennedy joined Middlesex Community College President Phil Sisson, Middlesex Community College Board of Trustees Chairman Jim Campbell, State Representative Vanna Howard, State Representative Rodney Elliott and others on a tour of the UMass-Lowell Inn & Conference Center on Friday, September 22. The tour included the hotel space and the student dorm space on the upper floors as well as the kitchen, dining and function room space on the lower floors.
In recent weeks Middlesex Community College has indicated that the college might be interested in acquiring the property from UMass-Lowell in order to develop a hospitality curriculum at the college that would allow the Inn & Conference Center to continue to function as a hotel. The Inn & Conference Center is located in the heart of the Lowell Central Business District and abuts the Middlesex Community College campus.
