The name of the main floor of the new King’s College state-of-the-art healthcare education facility is now the Levi First Floor of the Frank and Carolyn Kowalski Center for Advanced Healthcare Education.

Louis Levi, a 1962 King’s graduate and York resident made a $500,000 gift to King’s College and dedicated the gift to the memory of his wife, Michalene, son, Louis and brother, Henry. Each of them died over the last four years.

Levi grew up in Nanticoke and attended King’s College as a major in business administration. He later worked as the owner of Triangle Printing Company for decades before he retired in 2018.

“I am so grateful for all that King’s has done for me,” Levi said in a news release. “My time at King’s taught me to respect people for what they know. That understanding helped me build a team of talented individuals who were crucial to the success of my business.”

The Kowalski Center is located in the former Times Leader building on North Main Street in Wilkes-Barre and was redeveloped for more than $8 million. The new facility includes 60,000 square feet of renovated space and five floors of state-of-the-art labs and education resources.

The redeveloped facility is home to the college’s Doctorate in Occupational Therapy program — the first doctorate program in the institution’s history — and its new accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. It houses facility recreational spaces, daily living and pediatric labs, augmented reality technology and 3D printing services.

Levi has supported King’s College throughout his life, including contributions to the restoration efforts at the Chapel of Christ the King and the Sheehy-Farmer Campus Center, as well as the KC Fund. He also made a major gift in the early 2000s to establish the space that is now the King’s College radio station, WRKC.