LAN Gaming Events Are Coming to Rochester, NY!
ROCHESTER, NY, June 9, 2021 — Great Lakes Gaming signed a lease agreement with Gallina Development for their headquarters and gaming spaces in Innovation Square. On the 22nd floor, the gaming lounge won’t be anything like your mom's basement, this is gaming in the CLOUDS! The gaming lounge and GLG headquarters plans to open in Fall 2021.
The 3,400 sq. ft. space will have multiple rooms for many different gaming needs and uses:
GLG production room
Two private streaming booths
Open gaming area (with 12 PC units and 4 console stations)
Private team practice rooms
Viewing room & event space
Grab ‘n go café (supplied by the on-site restaurant)
Jade Patchett, Student
The Design
GLG was connected with junior-level interior design students in the Exhibition and Merchandising Studio course at RIT taught by Kelly Jahn, RIT lecturer and interior architect. The course of a dozen students developed their own unique take on what this new gaming lounge should look like. Throughout the article you will see various designs of the different locations throughout the facility, each with their own renditions and inspirations. These different designs will be brought together to create a final design yet to be released.
Ashley Diltz, Student
The Journey
GLG was founded to bring a renewed sense of professionalism and trust to the competitive gaming scene. Over the past year, owners Ben Garvey and Harry McCardell have been leading one of the most talented esport production crews to bring high quality content to the amateur scene.
It started in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare with the Tuesday Night League. A 2v2 weekly tournament that was GLG’s first entrance into the online tournament world in April 2020. The first event barely gathered 8 teams. Now, over a year later GLG is running weekly tournaments in Valorant with over 64 teams participating each tournament.
Innovation Square Design
A Special Thanks
We would like to give a special thank you to Evan Gallina, Kelly Jahn, the interior design students in the Exhibition and Merchandising Studio, and our advisory board for all their support and dedication throughout this process! It’s been surreal seeing our ideas coming together since GLG was founded out of a dorm room two years ago!
Learn more about Great Lakes Gaming and progress on the Innovation Square gaming lounge by following us: @glgaminglounges on Twitter and Instagram!
