Fifteen months after FAMU held a glorious ground breaking ceremony touting the construction of two "significant" facilities --- the new Developmental Research School and the new Teaching Gymnasium and Multi-Purpose Center--- little work has been done on either facility. Rattler Nation rode by the purposed site of the new multi-purpose gym, which is to be built on the site of the intramural field next to Howard Hall, on Sunday and discovered a fenced in barren lot with no signs of visable construction activity.
At the October 5, 2005 ground breaking, FAMU officials hailed the new teaching gym as a "state-of-the-art" $31 million, 10,000-seat arena that will include athletic offices, an indoor track, and a new home for Rattler basketball.
The new, $20 million, FAMU High was described as a facility to replace the current outdated high school campus. Terry Watson, president of the school's parent advisory committee said at the ground breaking, "we're excited about the new facility because it should have state-of-the art equipment, computer connections and the infrastructure itself." He's also said, the new school also will feature its own athletic fields. The athletic fields have since been cut from the school's plans.
According to a TDO article, the new school will include three separate buildings for elementary, middle and high-school students with a courtyard. It also will have space for public meetings and adult-education classes.
Design and construction contracts for both projects were awarded in early 2005. To date, however, no construction has been done on either facility.
Here's another lie by the current administration. What in the hell is taking them so long?
ReplyDeleteFAMU is beginning to look like a construction graveyard.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing new about the site, is the new green fence that has recently been added.
ReplyDeleteWhich building is the teaching gym, cause I know they have started construction by now. Now way could that empty lot represent the teaching gym that our illustrious interim president promised to build and open in fall '07.
ReplyDeleteThe square that you see there TODAY was put there in time for homecoming to make the alumni think that progress was being made.
ReplyDeleteFAMU owes so much money all over town that no one will contract to do anything with us!! These illiterate incompetent bastards have driven our alma mater into the ground.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Corbin's classmate and friend get the contract to design/build this thing? I distinctly remember him introducing a team at a Board meeting who I believe were awarded a contract on the gym.
ReplyDeleteLord, help us all out of this abyss.
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