97-09-12 Ongoing Construction Projects at Ohio State

FACE OF CAMPUS CHANGES WITH CONSTRUCTION

     COLUMBUS -- Several ongoing major construction projects at
The Ohio State University will give a new look to the campus.

     Construction continues on the $91.9 million Max M. Fisher
College of Business complex at West Woodruff Avenue and Tuttle
Park Place, where two buildings -- a graduate program building
and eight-story office building -- already are up and nearing a
February 1998 completion.  Construction has begun on the second
phase of the project, which includes undergraduate and executive
education program buildings, and a resource center with library
and computing facilities.  The phase two completion date is early
summer 1999.  The final building, still in the early planning
stages, will be a $13.5 million executive residence to house
participants in various executive education training sessions.

     The $93.2 million Schottenstein Center also is under way on
the northwest corner of Lane Avenue and Olentangy River Road. 
When completed by late summer 1998, the facility will seat 19,500
for basketball and other events.  On the west campus, new
recreation and intramural sports fields will replace the King
Avenue fields being displaced by construction affiliated with
work on state Route 315.  The 38 acres at the southwest corner of
Lane Avenue and Kenny Road will feature eight softball/baseball
diamonds, eight flag football fields, and two multipurpose spaces
for sports club practices, contests and tournaments.  Work on the
$4.7 million project will end in December.

     Demand for parking prompted the start of construction this
summer of an addition to the Northwest Parking Garage.  The new
Tuttle Park Place Garage, as the structure will be called, will
provide 1,000 more spaces as well as office and retail space. 
The $14.6 million project will be completed during winter 1998.

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Contact: David Bhaerman, University Communications, 614-292-8422.


[Submitted by: Von Vargas  (vargas.12@osu.edu)
               
Fri, 12 Sep 1997 16:27:48 -0400 (EDT)]
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