renovation

The remaining renovations include an auditorium, student learning center and visitor center.

About 100 people attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Gov. Mark Gordon says the renovation was a good investment.

The renovation of the Capitol building and other buildings around it cost about $300 million and began in 2014.

The renovated hotel will have 198 rooms renovated to Clarion's specifications, 42,000 square feet of convention space.

The construction will not require moving students to other schools.

The project is expected to be completed by this year's fall semester.

The hotel closed on Oct. 31.

CRU Casper, LLC -- a subsidiary of the CRU Real Estate Group in Costa Mesa, Calif. -- bought the hotel in June 2015.

The identity of the hotel's new ownership remains unknown.