GMU: Where Construction is Tradition

[Washingtonian]

Chris Kreider ‏@CoachKreider 4m
Renovation! Had to stop in and check on the new weight room! pic.twitter.com/ZIJnJLo5lU

 

[Five Two]

New Heath Sciences building gets funding:
http://newsdesk.gmu.edu/2014/06/commonwealth-approves-funding-new-health-sciences-building/

 

[Pikapppatri8]

New Heath Sciences building gets funding:
http://newsdesk.gmu.edu/2014/06/commonwealth-approves-funding-new-health-sciences-building/

Dammit you beat me to it.

 

[Yossarian]

University Blvd? Is this going to be built on the land that used to serve as a school bus parking lot? The land that belonged to George Fairfax Mason City University? I never understood who own(ed)(s) that land. These types of shady real estate deals have all the characteristics of the Clinton family and Frank Underwood.

If that's the spot, did I read correctly that it will overlook a pond? If so, I hope they stock it with bass so I can satiate my recessive redneck gene and poach a few of them from time to time. Or, at the very least, we could offer a bathing spot to Coach Murray's father when he comes to watch Rhode Island get beaten up in Fairfax... He could come over sometime and use the pool... or pond... whatever. The pond would be good for him.

 

[EXpatriot13]

University Blvd? Is this going to be built on the land that used to serve as a school bus parking lot? The land that belonged to George Fairfax Mason City University?

Pretty sure they mean the land currently occupied by Lot H near the University Drive entrance. Lot H is in between the new dorms (Whitetop, Rogers) and the newly appointed Alan and Sally Merten Hall (formerly University Hall).

 

[Five Two]

The total project is expected to cost $73 million; Mason will raise $8 million in tax-deductible donations for the building fund.

This line makes me ill. How will the school raise $8M and where will that money come from? And why aren't those donors/corporations supporting athletics?????

 

[Pikapppatri8]

This line makes me ill. How will the school raise $8M and where will that money come from? And why aren't those donors/corporations supporting athletics?????

Don't let it make you ill - there are a lot of NOVA companies that are going to back this including INOVA and others with years of partnering with Mason under their belt.

 

[GSII]

This line makes me ill. How will the school raise $8M and where will that money come from? And why aren't those donors/corporations supporting athletics?????

I wonder if Alan Merten had something to do with that securing some of that $ in his last years. If true, kinda makes you see how academics trumped athletics.

 

[psyclone]

This line makes me ill. How will the school raise $8M and where will that money come from? And why aren't those donors/corporations supporting athletics?????

Mason's endowment is quite low not only among state universities (http://www.connect2mason.com/content/masons-endowment-numbers-lower-other-comparable-universities), most of whom are significantly older, but also compared to similarly-aged institutions nationally. In those circumstances especially it shouldn't be surprising that academics trumps athletics. Indeed, one might argue that at ANY university, academics should trump athletics.

 

[Five Two]

I guess what I'm saying is that those who raised that $8M should go and help the Patriot Club as well.

 

[GSII]

I guess what I'm saying is that those who raised that $8M should go and help the Patriot Club as well.

I think this should have been done too, but Merten put a stubtle stop or slow down to athletic funding so more could be done for academics. Even though we may not like to admit it, it was probably the right thing to do.

 

[Pikapppatri8]

There is no doubt that Merten favored the development of academic , programs and facilities. But to be honest and fair that was the right decision for the University at its phase of development. We are at a different phase now.

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[Pikapppatri8]

I need to make another run to campus with a camera.

 

[Walter]

I need to make another run to campus with a camera.

Yes, you should do that for those of us who don't get to northern Virginia that often.

 

[Pikapppatri8]

Other shots of the new CHHS Building.

 

[psyclone]

I need to make another run to campus with a camera.

How's the tunnel under 123 coming along?

 

[mason89]

How's the tunnel under 123 coming along?

Drove by there on Saturday. It looks like they've started putting the overhead beams for the underpass.

 

[Walter]

Some pretty cool aerial shots of campus and Fairfax over time.

http://www.fairfaxva.gov/home/showdocument?id=4290

 

[MasonFanatic]

I took a bunch of photos of the Fenwick Library project a couple of weeks ago, and I keep forgetting to upload them. It's much bigger than I realized! I'll try to get them up tonight or tomorrow.

 

[psyclone]

Fenwick Library project......em. It's much bigger than I realized!

Yeah--it's supposed to double the square footage of Fenwick and the exterior is a much bigger footprint. They still have another year to go on the project.