Oh, good I really did not want to see an illuminated sign facing the river. I will be looking for the work to continue and I'll let you know how it is going.
The construction fences have been removed from Campbell Hall and the building looks like it is brand new. It should be ready for students to move in when they return in late August. They have also installed large green and white place name signs at the Union and several other buildings; they are rather large but look good. And they have removed the graffiti from under the new Farm Lane Bridge and have also finished the landscaping which looks very nice! It takes so little to make me happy! The other big building projects are moving along at a fast pace. The scoreboards still have the black panels on the back; it may be that they are going to broadcast the Spartan symbol on the screen as depicted in the drawings. Anyway, it still looks like LED screen to me.
Today while out on our building's outdoor deck which overlooks the campus, I saw that they were testing the new scoreboard on the south side of the stadium. The board looks much brighter, and sharper at least in the test patterns, and maybe even a bit larger in dimensions on the 4 sides. The framing on the north endzone boards is being installed and so far, it looks like the back of the scoreboard facing north are just the black panels I saw before hopefully without led screens. They have also installed the ring of LED boards along the top of north and south walls.
I also finally figured out what the tower on the grounds of the Union is, it is a river flood waring siren as I saw some illustrated in the coverage of the Texas floods. I also now remember seeing a similar tower downtown on the river trail. It is reassuring to know the areas rivers are monitored and have alert sirens, as we saw in Midland County in 2020 this kind of flood can happen in Michigan.
MSU Pavilion has been renamed the Farm Bureau Pavilion, the sponsorship will help fund the new arena they had been fundraising for along with other improvements. There's no word on the timeline for the addition or improvements. The old expansion proposal was for a 40k sq ft indoor/outdoor arena, the new articles specifically state "indoor arena". Apparently MSU announced this back in December but local media is just running a story on it now.
I'm glad to see a venue like MSU Pavilion be successful in the area but I do hope that the state money for the Lansing Center come's through and the city chooses to do an expansion so we can get a few of these Pavilion events back downtown.
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I figured as much. What you're probably just seeing is that they haven't put the caps/backs on, yet.
I also finally figured out what the tower on the grounds of the Union is, it is a river flood waring siren as I saw some illustrated in the coverage of the Texas floods. I also now remember seeing a similar tower downtown on the river trail. It is reassuring to know the areas rivers are monitored and have alert sirens, as we saw in Midland County in 2020 this kind of flood can happen in Michigan.
I'm glad to see a venue like MSU Pavilion be successful in the area but I do hope that the state money for the Lansing Center come's through and the city chooses to do an expansion so we can get a few of these Pavilion events back downtown.
https://www.wlns.com/news/michigan-state-university-pavilion-to-be-renamed/
https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2024/msu-pavilion-to-be-renamed-michigan-farm-bureau-pavilion-at-msu