$1 Billion Ohio Medical Center Project Begins
$61 Million Recreation Center Opens at CSU Long Beach
LONG BEACH, Calif. — By the time you read this, thousands of California State University, Long Beach students will have already explored and used the school’s new Student Recreation and Wellness Center, a $61 million, 126,000-square-foot facility that opened its doors Sept. 20 after a year and a half of construction.
Inside the student-fee funded SRWC, students, faculty, alumni, and family members can scale a rock-climbing wall, play racquetball and basketball on designated courts for each, or dine in at the Fresh Foods Café Express.
Read More $61 Million Recreation Center Opens at CSU Long Beach
LONG BEACH, Calif. — By the time you read this, thousands of California State University, Long Beach students will have already explored and used the school’s new Student Recreation and Wellness Center, a $61 million, 126,000-square-foot facility that opened its doors Sept. 20 after a year and a half of construction.
Inside the student-fee funded SRWC, students, faculty, alumni, and family members can scale a rock-climbing wall, play racquetball and basketball on designated courts for each, or dine in at the Fresh Foods Café Express.
Read More Des Moines District to Fund Deferred Projects
DES MOINES, Iowa — Twenty-four Des Moines-area schools that missed out on approximately $290 million in building improvements over the last 10 years will be the first to receive part of $112.5 million Des Moines Public Schools hopes to collect in the next five years thanks to a statewide one-cent sales tax enacted last July, district officials said.
The statewide tax replaced a local option sales tax. Under the local option tax, the Des Moines district upgraded 31 elementary, middle, and high schools.
Read More Arizona Rec Center Awarded LEED Platinum
TUCSON, Ariz. — A recently expanded recreation center at the University of Arizona was awarded LEED Platinum certification. Designed by architectural firm Sasaki in partnership with M3 Engineering out of Tucson — and originally targeting LEED Silver — the completed project integrates passive solar, programmed outdoor space, daylighting strategies and indoor environmental quality as fundamentals of the building, according to reports.
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Pa. Schools to Receive $325.5 Million for Projects
WORMLEYSBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania State Public School Building Authority, a state agency that assists school districts and community colleges in obtaining financing, is selling $325.5 million in taxable qualified school construction bonds, representing the largest bond deal the program has made since it started up last year.
The bonds, which will be released Sept. 30, will support renovations and building projects at 46 districts statewide.
Read More Turner to Manage $102 Million in LA School Projects
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Unified School District has chosen Turner Construction Co. as the construction manager for two elementary school projects and one high school project, the latter of which will include building eight separate facilities to house 30 classrooms.
Read More University of Iowa plans Children鈥檚 Hospital
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Officials at the University of Iowa moved ahead with the application for a $100 million federal grant that would fund the construction of a new children’s hospital there.
Tom Moore, spokesman for the university, says the grant would pay a major portion of the costs for the hospital.
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