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Show Chamber hears SUSC report under phase A. If a bid proves acceptable, construction will begin sometime in July. The complex will be located just South of 200 South at 1020 West. "We are hoping for completion comple-tion in time for occupancy by the first of winter quarter of this year," Kunz said. There are also- indications that construction i r,v may begin as early as this fall, Kun' " , B wil include 46 units, lnclud. (Continued (on Page 2. CoL 2) Southern Utah State College is probably as healthy now as it has ever been, President Royden C. Braithwaite reported report-ed at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the college Friday. Fri-day. "In almost all respects, last year was the best year ever at the college. Our enrollment was higher than ever before, our 'mix' of students the breakdown by numbers in each class is better than it has ever been, and I think our faculty is the -brst faculty facul-ty this school has ever had," ' Braithwaite said. President Braithwaite apologized apol-ogized for the "torn up" con ditlon of the campus, but in dicated that this is the necessary neces-sary Inconvenience when phy sical improvements were being made. Merrill B. Kunz, director of the SUSC physical plant, discussed dis-cussed construction either underway un-derway at the college or planned plan-ned to begin this summer. Aside from the Utah Shakespearean Shakes-pearean Festival tiring house which Is being . financed through private donation, SUSC SU-SC is beginning or will be gin very soon five major projects. Most expensive of the five projects will be a new administration admin-istration building. Cost will be $680,0000. Other projects and their approximate costs include in-clude improvements on two parking lots. $20,000: phase A of the married student housing hous-ing complex, $280,000; ,a campus lighting and conduit system, $175,000, and peripheral peri-pheral road improvements, $10,000. Only final approval of plans and specifications by the federal fed-eral department of Housing and Urban Development re- mains before bidding can begin be-gin on thp administration building. Bidding should begin be-gin by late July, and construction construc-tion will probably begin by mid-August. Demolition of Ponderosa Vil-liage, Vil-liage, barracks-type married student housing, will begin the first week of July. Parking for the administrative building build-ing will be located whore Pon-dcrosa Pon-dcrosa now stands. "Construction on the admin-istration admin-istration building should take about a year," Kunz explain-rd. explain-rd. "It should be ready for occupancy oc-cupancy by the beginning of fall quarter, 1972." Western Rock Froduds Is beginning improvements on the parking area between the physical education complex and Oak Hall. Sod removal and other preparations are also underway to enlarge the parking lot south of the museum. mu-seum. The parking improvement will include blacktopping. curb and gutter, painting of lines, lighting and construe lion of planting areas. The P-E P-E parking lot will accomodate accomo-date 1S6 cars. The museum I lot will bo enlarged to appro. limatcly twice its current size, and a separate exit will be added. Bids on the tM phase of the two-stage married housing hous-ing will be oienrd today. iVen'yfour one and two-eirsan two-eirsan unit are scheduled SUSC REPORT (Continued from Front Page) ing some three-bedroom apart-ments. apart-ments. Cost of the second phase is estimated at $630,000. The campus lighting and conduit project has Just pass-ed pass-ed the halfway point. It should be completed by the end of July. "We hope to have many of the lamps up in time for the Shakespearean Festival in mid-July," Kunz said. Peripheral road Improve-provementg Improve-provementg include curb and gutter along 800 West from 200 South to Center Street and widening wi-dening and curb and gutter on Center Street from 300 West to Interstate 15. "This project should be completed by the beginning of fall quarter," Kunz indicated. indicat-ed. The college is cooperating with the state department of highways and Cedar City in the center street project. SUSC will also construct a sidewalk on the south side of Center Street from the plant operations oper-ations building to auditorium parking area as part of the project. |
