A few items of note in MSU's 5 year capitol outlay request to the State:
-The priority for 2024 is another $120m in funding for the $250m new Engineering and Digital Innovation Center
-A significant renovation to the MSU Auditorium ($31-$55m)
-$120-$150m in renovations/additions to the Clinical Center
-A "child development laboratory" in Lansing, cost TBD
-Aquatic research facility renovation/addition ($30-$36m)
-Additional Duffy Daugherty Building renovations/addition ($40-$43m)
-$22m in Renovations to Jenison plus mention of an $60m+ "Olympic Sport/Multi-Purpose Arena" in the "additions/renovations" section, it seems likely that this is also Jenison.
- Comprehensive renovations at Kresge Art Center ($52-$56m)
- Renovations/additions to Plant and Environmental Sciences ($90-$120m)
- New chemical waste facility ($40m)
- New multipurpose arena for intercollegiate athletics (this is separate from the other arena mentioned... $75-85m)
-Complete renovations to Old Botany and Yakeley/Gilchrist Hall (~$14m/$40m respectively)
It looks like the reconstruction of the Farm Lane Bridge is starting up again, there were crews working under the bridge today and signs up noting the road will be closed as of 12/18. Up the street the new student center is taking shape and looks large in its space.
Crews were using huge cranes and cement cutters to pull up the main center spans of the Farm Lane Bridge today, interesting to watch for all you sidewalk supervisors out there.
A small new project announced out at MSU: A packaging school expansion that will relocate the satellite dish farm south of the existing building to make way for an addition that will double their current space. The addition will cost $25 million and is expected to break ground in 2025.
I noticed the glass facade of the new student International Center is going up. it looks very nice. the support walls of the Farm Lane bridge look nice as well, it has been interesting to see this construction so closely.
Avoiding Michigan Ave I traveled down Harrison and saw a very large crane and many steel beams already standing at the new Student Wellness Center site. It is going to be a very large building.
Over at the Farm Lane bridge project the walls on both banks have now been poured, in what seems like a very fast process, they take the form walls down the day after pouring the cement. I wonder if they will let the students cover the new walls with graffiti, it looks like there will be banks of plantings between the walls and the sidewalk underpass. When they were tearing down the old walls it reminded me of the Berlin Wall covered with graffiti coming down. I suppose that it will be impossible to keep the "art" off the new walls. Yesterday they were pouring the cement for the sidewalk underpass. The space was full of water, and they displaced the water by pouring in the cement. There is only one sidewalk on the north side. It has been interesting to see this process up close.
I have been wondering if anyone knows why there is a temporary traffic signal in front of Sparty. It has been there for several weeks, but I cannot figure out why. They did put in new sod in front of Sparty but that is the only "construction" going on in that area.
Comments
-The priority for 2024 is another $120m in funding for the $250m new Engineering and Digital Innovation Center
-A significant renovation to the MSU Auditorium ($31-$55m)
-$120-$150m in renovations/additions to the Clinical Center
-A "child development laboratory" in Lansing, cost TBD
-Aquatic research facility renovation/addition ($30-$36m)
-Additional Duffy Daugherty Building renovations/addition ($40-$43m)
-$22m in Renovations to Jenison plus mention of an $60m+ "Olympic Sport/Multi-Purpose Arena" in the "additions/renovations" section, it seems likely that this is also Jenison.
- Comprehensive renovations at Kresge Art Center ($52-$56m)
- Renovations/additions to Plant and Environmental Sciences ($90-$120m)
- New chemical waste facility ($40m)
- New multipurpose arena for intercollegiate athletics (this is separate from the other arena mentioned... $75-85m)
-Complete renovations to Old Botany and Yakeley/Gilchrist Hall (~$14m/$40m respectively)
https://trustees.msu.edu/meetings/documents/2023/BF1-Capital Outlay Request.pdf
https://www.wlns.com/news/msu-board-approves-25m-school-of-packaging-expansion/
Over at the Farm Lane bridge project the walls on both banks have now been poured, in what seems like a very fast process, they take the form walls down the day after pouring the cement. I wonder if they will let the students cover the new walls with graffiti, it looks like there will be banks of plantings between the walls and the sidewalk underpass. When they were tearing down the old walls it reminded me of the Berlin Wall covered with graffiti coming down. I suppose that it will be impossible to keep the "art" off the new walls. Yesterday they were pouring the cement for the sidewalk underpass. The space was full of water, and they displaced the water by pouring in the cement. There is only one sidewalk on the north side. It has been interesting to see this process up close.