Completed in 2009, the building houses classrooms, offices, and laboratories from several disciplines of the school's College of Liberal Arts.

[6][7] The school hired Hoffman Construction as the general contractor and hoped to achieve LEED Gold Certification for the building.

[9] During construction, the Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters picketed the school in a dispute with one of the subcontractors working on Ford Hall.

[14] School officials hoped to use the project to draw more students to that section of the campus, which was previously underutilized, as well as to incorporate many environmentally friendly features into the new building.

[15] Other items include a displacement ventilation HVAC system, solar panels, use of recycled materials in the construction, and maximizing the use of natural light throughout the structure.

[14] The four-story, 42,000-square-foot (3,900 m2) brick-faced building houses programs from rhetoric, computer science, film studies, mathematics, and digital art, among others.