Imagination Playground Opens in NYC
NEW YORK — There’s good news for kids in Lower Manhattan — architect David Rockwell’s Imagination Playground is finally open for 
play.
play.The founder and CEO of New York-based Rockwell Group cut the ribbon to the city’s newest hangout for the 12 and under crowd at a ceremony this summer that included Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Rockwell conceived of the idea to build a better playgro
Read More Norwegian Firm Draws from Ohio Landscape
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — With its flat planes and grass-covered courtyard, the Wolfe Center for the Arts, presently under construction at Bowling Green State University, will remind some of Ohio’s far-stretching prairies and voluminous skies when completed in the fall of next year.
Calif., N.J. Schools See Construction Funding Boost
Sacramento, Calif. — State education agencies in California and New Jersey were recently awarded more than $675 million in school construction funds.
In Sacramento, the State Allocation Board announced that it has allocated $408 million in matching funds for 78 shovel-ready school construction projects in 42 school districts. These projects are expected to create more than 7,000 new jobs.
San Diego District to Start Construction of Solar Projects
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Unified School District is set to begin construction this fall on a 23,000-panel solar array located on top of 80-plus rooftops at 20 sites district-wide.
Read More University of Missouri Opens New Student Union
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The University of Missouri-Kansas City recently opened a new $38.3 million, 109,000-square-foot Student Union building. Design firm Gould Evans and builder McCownGordon Construction, both of Kansas City, collaborated to complete the design-build project on a 17-month accelerated timeline.
Inside the student fee-funded building are a 329-seat theater, three-story daylit atrium, bookstore, coffee house, kitchen and dining facilities, and offices for student organizations.
Read More U-Conn Trustees Approve Basketball Practice Facility
STORRS, Conn. — The University of Connecticut’s Board of Trustees have approved spending $3 million in private donations to design a new basketball practice facility, slated for a site behind the Harry A. Gampel Pavilion, the home of the Huskies’ men’s and women’s basketball teams.
The project, which has been in the works for several years, has a budget of approximately $25 million, according to the university’s athletics director, Jeff Hathaway.
Read More Construction officials face the School BoardBoard members
After the many concerns about the high school construction project that were expressed at the Sept. 13 Nevada School Board meeting, this past Monday’s meeting was a much calmer affair as construction officials came face to face with members of the school board.
School tax extension campaign gets a look
Nine years ago this week, Volusia County voters approved an extra half percent sales tax to underwrite a massive school construction program that’s mostly been completed as promised.
Law School construction brings excitement, inconvenience
The construction of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights, a site dedicated to educating students on civil rights issues, is scheduled for completion in the fall of 2011.