9-15-98

MAJOR BUILDING PROJECTS ARE POPPING UP AT OHIO STATE

	COLUMBUS -- The 1998-99 school year at The Ohio State 
University features several major construction projects that will 
change the face of the campus.

	The first two buildings of the Max M. Fisher College of 
Business complex are now occupied as work continues on the other 
four buildings, and the Jerome Schottenstein Center will open its 
doors for play in October.  Work has begun on a Success Center 
for current students and the Longaberger Alumni House for 
graduates.  A new Heart and Lung Institute will be the site of 
the university’s pioneering research efforts in the diseases of 
the heart and lungs, and utility work is under way on the massive 
renovation of Ohio Stadium.

	Staff and faculty have moved into the first two buildings 
completed in Phase I of construction of the $120 million Fisher 
College of Business complex along West Woodruff Avenue.

	The nine-story Fisher Hall includes faculty and staff 
administrative offices and the college’s research and business 
partnership centers.  Graduate students will attend classes in 
Gerlach Hall beginning this quarter.  Among the features of the 
building are a stock market laboratory networked with Nasdaq for 
concurrent stock trading and a career services center with 
practice rooms wired for video and distance interviewing.

	Phase II of the complex, scheduled to open in fall 1999, 
will include Schoenbaum Hall for undergraduate programs, the 
Business Resource Center and Pfahl Hall, the executive education 
building.  A 120-room Executive Residence is scheduled to open in 
2001.

	A new campus landmark at the northwest corner of Lane Avenue 
and Olentangy River Road, the $105 million Jerome Schottenstein 
Center’s Value Center Arena will be home to the Ohio State hockey 
and men’s and women’s basketball teams.  The state-of-the-art 
facility will hold 17,000 fans for hockey, 19,500 fans for 
basketball and 21,000 guests for concerts when it opens in late 
October.  At 700,000 square feet, the Schottenstein Center would 
hold two St. John Arenas.  There are no obstructed views from any 
seat.

	The $10 million Success Center, with a strong 
multidisciplinary nature and student focus, will be built at the 
site of the former Neil Hall on Neil Avenue between West 10th and 
11th avenues.  The new 60,000-square-foot building will house 
academic athletic support offices and study spaces, counseling 
and consultation services and a student learning center when it 
opens in May 1999.

	The $8.7 million Longaberger Alumni House will be built 
along the Olentangy River, north of Lane Avenue and south of the 
Fawcett Center.  The three-story building is designed to meet the 
growing needs of the Alumni Association and will open in August 
1999.

	The Heart and Lung Institute will be a new six–story 
facility to concentrate in a single location the resources 
necessary to conduct an intensive program of teaching and 
research in the diseases of the heart and lungs.  Located at the 
former site of Upham Hall on West 12th Avenue, the $23.9 million 
project is expected to open in October 1999.

	Seventy-five years after it hosted its first season of 
football, the landmark Ohio Stadium is undergoing a $150 million 
renovation.  When work is complete -- in 2001 -- the stadium will 
feature more seats, better accessibility, additional restrooms 
and concession stands and hospitality suites and club seats.  The 
stadium will maintain its distinctive horseshoe shape.

	To lessen the impact of construction on parking and campus 
circulation, transit service has been more than doubled this 
year, with the addition and expansion of bus routes, more buses 
and less time between pickups.  The Tuttle Park Place Garage will 
add nearly 1,000 parking spaces when it opens in March.

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Contacts:  Jill Morelli, University Architect, 614-292-4458; and 
Sarah Blouch, Transportation and Parking Services, 614-292-9800.

Written by Dave Bhaerman, University Communication, 614-292-8422.