$61 Million Recreation Center Opens at CSU Long Beach

LONG BEACH, Calif. — By the time you read this, thousands of California State University, Long Beach students will have already explored and used the school’s new Student Recreation and Wellness Center, a $61 million, 126,000-square-foot facility that opened its doors Sept. 20 after a year and a half of construction.
 
Inside the student-fee funded SRWC, students, faculty, alumni, and family members can scale a rock-climbing wall, play racquetball and basketball on designated courts for each, or dine in at the Fresh Foods Café Express.

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$61 Million Recreation Center Opens at CSU Long Beach

LONG BEACH, Calif. — By the time you read this, thousands of California State University, Long Beach students will have already explored and used the school’s new Student Recreation and Wellness Center, a $61 million, 126,000-square-foot facility that opened its doors Sept. 20 after a year and a half of construction.
 
Inside the student-fee funded SRWC, students, faculty, alumni, and family members can scale a rock-climbing wall, play racquetball and basketball on designated courts for each, or dine in at the Fresh Foods Café Express.

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Des Moines District to Fund Deferred Projects

DES MOINES, Iowa — Twenty-four Des Moines-area schools that missed out on approximately $290 million in building improvements over the last 10 years will be the first to receive part of $112.5 million Des Moines Public Schools hopes to collect in the next five years thanks to a statewide one-cent sales tax enacted last July, district officials said.
 
The statewide tax replaced a local option sales tax. Under the local option tax, the Des Moines district upgraded 31 elementary, middle, and high schools.

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Arizona Rec Center Awarded LEED Platinum

TUCSON, Ariz. — A recently expanded recreation center at the University of Arizona was awarded LEED Platinum certification. Designed by architectural firm Sasaki in partnership with M3 Engineering out of Tucson — and originally targeting LEED Silver — the completed project integrates passive solar, programmed outdoor space, daylighting strategies and indoor environmental quality as fundamentals of the building, according to reports.

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