Big stuff going down on campus this week: Frank “Post Secret” Warren gave a sold-out talk in the ballroom last night, the official/symbolic ground-breaking of the Mark-Jefferson science complex was today, and President Martin gets the inauguration treatment Thursday.
But I have to say that I still have Pray-Harrold on my mind, as does the Ypsilanti Citizen: “Large projects in EMU’s future.” And by “large projects,” they really seem to mean mainly a single project, as in Pray-Harrold.
But before I get to the “read more” part: let me once again remind folks about the “Pray-Harrold renovation final begins” pool here at EMUTalk.org, and, because of the small number of entries so far, let me announce that I am extending the deadline for entries until December 31, 2008. More on that in a near future post.
Anyway, here are the first couple paragraphs of the Ypsi Citizen story:
About an hour before officially breaking ground at Mark-Jefferson, Eastern Michigan University unveiled its plans for its next large project.
John Donegan, associate vice president of facilities for EMU presented a proposed budget and time frame for the Pray-Harrold modernization project. Expected to cost $42 million, Donegan said the plan is to “put a shovel in the ground a year from today.
“That’s pretty aggressive,” Donegan told the EMU regents during their meeting today. “We’re really on a fast track here and we’re doing it deliberately.”
The article goes on to give more details about the plans than I’ve read anywhere else.
I will say once again that I will believe it when I see it, especially with various budget issues. Donegan said that we have already received the money from the state for Pray-Harrold, but it would not shock me if the state insisted we give that money back. Or something else along these lines happens.
In any event, there is still time to enter the pool. Don’t be shy. I’ve only seen two entries so far, April 30, 2011 and September 4, 2011. As more of a pessimist on these matters, I’d probably say that 2013 is more realistic.
