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August
2003
Ran:
San Diego Daily Transcript-Soaring Dimensions-South
County - Thursday, August 28, 2003
Alumni
Center under way at USD
Six-level
parking structure also slated for completion
By:
Liz Harman
A
new 28,000-square-foot alumni center at the University of
San Diego, made possible by a $5 million gift from the family
foundation of USD graduate Bert Degheri, is scheduled for
completion by the end of the year.
Wheeler
Wimer Blackman
is the project's architect and Douglas E. Barnhart
Inc. is the contractor.
The Degheri
Alumni Center, located near USD's main entrance, will be a
campus hospitality center and showcase USD's traditions and
history. The center will host official alumni events and features
a campus "living room" with a fireplace for small
gatherings, a Spanish Renaissance-style courtyard with fountain
for receptions and a patio and conference room for formal
dinners and meetings. The three-story building will house
offices for USD alumni relations, fund raising and communications
and marketing.
"We're
very grateful to Bert Degheri for this wonderful gift,"
said Jack Kelly, USD's alumni relations director. "The
facility will create an exciting new center for integrated
alumni and student activity in addition to being a source
for pride for the university."
A dedication
for the new facility will take place early next year.
Also
under way at USD is a six-level, 783-space parking structure
adjacent to an existing parking lot on the west end of campus.
The $11 million structure is expected to be complete when
school starts this fall.
The architect
is Innovative Design Group in association
with Mosher Drew Watson Ferguson. The contractor
is Douglas E. Barnhart Inc.
To help
minimize concerns about the project's potential impacts from
USD's neighbors, the structure is being built into a hillside,
giving it a smaller profile. Three stories are being constructed
underground to minimize height concerns and the structure's
footprint has been modified to allow the university to maintain
346 existing surface parking spaces.
Earlier
this summer, USD celebrated the dedication of its new $47
million Donald P. Shiley Center for Science and Technology.
The 150,000-squaer-foot center features state-of-the-art equipment
and 72 laboratories and classrooms.
Carrier
Johnson was the project's architect. Van Atta and Associates
was the landscape architect.
Mary
Whelan, USD's director of University Design, worked to make
sure the center's exterior and interiors were consistent with
USD's Spanish Renaissance style. USD's Facilities Management
team coordinated the entire project.
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