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Post by 2ndGenBeaver on May 7, 2023 21:53:25 GMT -8
Don't know if you can get to this GT article or not: gazettetimes.com/news/local/200m-osu-complex-goes-to-city-for-permit/article_cfce8414-eb98-11ed-a874-af9ab5c0bb56.htmlSalient points: The 144,000-square-foot research complex plan is headed to the Corvallis Historic Resources Commission for permit approval. Fundraising going well, plan for completion of construction in 2025. And some information that was raised in our prior discussion..... Weniger Hall will be demolished to make way for the new complex. Not considered historic, the building has been identified as OSU’s highest seismic risk due to its construction, composed of two structures that were built in two separate construction phases, with no seismic joint between the two structures, according to the college’s permit application. An existing parking lot east of Weniger Hall will be reconstructed in a new, east-west configuration. Go Beavers! |
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Post by sportsfan85 on May 8, 2023 7:54:28 GMT -8
Weniger Hall is easily the one building along Monroe that can be raised to improve that part of campus.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on May 8, 2023 9:08:04 GMT -8
Don't know if you can get to this GT article or not: gazettetimes.com/news/local/200m-osu-complex-goes-to-city-for-permit/article_cfce8414-eb98-11ed-a874-af9ab5c0bb56.htmlSalient points: The 144,000-square-foot research complex plan is headed to the Corvallis Historic Resources Commission for permit approval. Fundraising going well, plan for completion of construction in 2025. And some information that was raised in our prior discussion..... Weniger Hall will be demolished to make way for the new complex. Not considered historic, the building has been identified as OSU’s highest seismic risk due to its construction, composed of two structures that were built in two separate construction phases, with no seismic joint between the two structures, according to the college’s permit application. An existing parking lot east of Weniger Hall will be reconstructed in a new, east-west configuration. Go Beavers! Just to be clear, this building will be west of Weniger and west of the current Black Cultural Center, in the parking lot to the north of the Kelley Engineering building. Across Monroe from the strip mall where Domino's is. Weniger will be razed to offset the parking the lost by the new building, not to directly make way for it. |
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Post by 2ndGenBeaver on May 8, 2023 9:27:41 GMT -8
Don't know if you can get to this GT article or not: gazettetimes.com/news/local/200m-osu-complex-goes-to-city-for-permit/article_cfce8414-eb98-11ed-a874-af9ab5c0bb56.htmlSalient points: The 144,000-square-foot research complex plan is headed to the Corvallis Historic Resources Commission for permit approval. Fundraising going well, plan for completion of construction in 2025. And some information that was raised in our prior discussion..... Weniger Hall will be demolished to make way for the new complex. Not considered historic, the building has been identified as OSU’s highest seismic risk due to its construction, composed of two structures that were built in two separate construction phases, with no seismic joint between the two structures, according to the college’s permit application. An existing parking lot east of Weniger Hall will be reconstructed in a new, east-west configuration. Go Beavers! Just to be clear, this building will be west of Weniger and west of the current Black Cultural Center, in the parking lot to the north of the Kelley Engineering building. Across Monroe from the strip mall where Domino's is. Weniger will be razed to offset the parking the lost by the new building, not to directly make way for it. Good point, and good clarification. Note that the sentence "Weniger Hall will be demolished to make way for the new complex." was a direct quote from the linked article. I will strive to be more careful in the future in distinguishing my posting from quoted content...... That said, I suspect there is a modicum of truth to the statement - without some parking solution, the new complex would greatly reduce North side parking..... not that the Historic Commission will likely worry about that aspect of the plan. |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on May 8, 2023 9:38:03 GMT -8
Here's a good map. The red is the new building. Weniger is just to the left, across Memorial Place. That's gonna be a big, big building; $200 million might be the most expensive construction project in OSU history, outpacing both Reser projects. The G-T is not the paper it once was. Should have read, "As part of the overall project, Weniger Hall will be demolished to provide parking space to replace the current parking to be lost on the footprint of the new building," or something like that. I'm kinda anal about stuff like that. Details matter.  |
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Post by Judge Smails on May 8, 2023 9:59:50 GMT -8
Here's a good map. The red is the new building. Weniger is just to the left, across Memorial Place. That's gonna be a big, big building; $200 million might be the most expensive construction project in OSU history, outpacing both Reser projects. The G-T is not the paper it once was. Should have read, "As part of the overall project, Weniger Hall will be demolished to provide parking space to replace the current parking to be lost on the footprint of the new building," or something like that. I'm kinda anal about stuff like that. Details matter. View AttachmentThe Black Cultural center is currently on that site where the new building is being built. I wonder where they are moving that building. |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on May 8, 2023 10:06:15 GMT -8
Here's a good map. The red is the new building. Weniger is just to the left, across Memorial Place. That's gonna be a big, big building; $200 million might be the most expensive construction project in OSU history, outpacing both Reser projects. The G-T is not the paper it once was. Should have read, "As part of the overall project, Weniger Hall will be demolished to provide parking space to replace the current parking to be lost on the footprint of the new building," or something like that. I'm kinda anal about stuff like that. Details matter. View AttachmentThe Black Cultural center is currently on that site where the new building is being built. I wonder where they are moving that building. No, the BCC will remain. You have to zoom in on the map but it's the small yellow building on the SW corner of Memorial Place and Monroe. |
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Post by spudbeaver on May 8, 2023 18:21:42 GMT -8
Weniger Hall is easily the one building along Monroe that can be raised to improve that part of campus. You think they should add floors to it?? |
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Post by 2ndGenBeaver on May 12, 2023 8:37:31 GMT -8
There is a good diagram in this document that shows the building footprint. I was trying to figure out whether the proposal won the approval of the Historic Resources Commission, but the minutes for the meeting aren't posted yet..... Go Beavers! |
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