Facilities Master Plan

[FSSD]

NDSU had $29 million in athletic projects approved. The funding was entirely privately raised and appears to have been a straightforward pass-through.

In addition, $43 million was approved for residence hall projects at various campus locations.

The largest request was an $80 million state / $68 million other funding proposal for a Medical Facility Addition at UND. The state did not approve that project this time. It was already considered a low priority, and overall the legislature did not appear to be in a big spending mood during this session.

[UND69er]

15 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

give us the cliff notes version?

Can we assume this $29 MM in "private funding" is legit and has been accumulated over years that NDSU has bee beating the drum to go FBS? 

[UNDBIZ]

The requests for privately funded buildings are generally submitted prior to any funds being raised.  You can look at it as a request to start raising money and, if funds are secured, begin construction.

[forksandspoons]

When is the new master plan going to be released? Curious about the plan for the basketball teams 

[forksandspoons]

Would be a huge addition to UND and Grand Forks to have this in the winter months and keep Ray Richards going. 
 

The 42nd corridor will have a lot of entertainment in the next few years. 
 

 

[GeauxSioux]

Wow!  That is pretty cool.

[UND69er]

4 hours ago, GeauxSioux said:

Wow!  That is pretty cool.

I agree!! Very nice addition and facility.  As someone who learned to play golf on RR in 1968 during my Junior year at  UND I cannot believe the progress! Great for UND.

[SiouxFan100]

I can still see my tee shots on ray Richard bouncing down Demers back in the day

[SIOUXFAN97]

tear down the clubhouse....use VERTICAL space and build the nursing home thingy and new clubhouse on the corner of demers and 34th.....find a way to use the old range to make up for losing some land to the underpass......

then put the top golf west of the new dorms..right on uni....right on campus....right next to all the students.....

but a new parking lot.........

[gfhockey]

7 hours ago, SiouxFan100 said:

I can still see my tee shots on ray Richard bouncing down Demers back in the day

How many trains you get 

[SiouxHawkGuy]

11 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

tear down the clubhouse....use VERTICAL space and build the nursing home thingy and new clubhouse on the corner of demers and 34th.....find a way to use the old range to make up for losing some land to the underpass......

then put the top golf west of the new dorms..right on uni....right on campus....right next to all the students.....

but a new parking lot.........

Yeah parking lot was dumb

[Nodak1883]

13 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

tear down the clubhouse....use VERTICAL space and build the nursing home thingy and new clubhouse on the corner of demers and 34th.....find a way to use the old range to make up for losing some land to the underpass......

then put the top golf west of the new dorms..right on uni....right on campus....right next to all the students.....

but a new parking lot.........

There's still space available on campus to put more items if needed for future development. While the parking lot may have been dumb, the goal of it was to get students who live in McVey and West away from having to park in the Chester Fritz Performing Arts Center Lot to solve the following issues:

1. Students having to play frogger with traffic that could care less about pedestrians

2. People attending events at the CFPAC would have to park areas farther away because the CFPAC had 3 areas in the lot for different on-campus students depending on the residence hall they were in. 

3. Due to redevelopment of the east side of campus/core campus, there isn't a lot of parking in general in that area. The CFPAC lot has pretty much transitioned to the lot for commuting students who do buy a standard parking permit. 

Again, the parking lot may have been dumb, but it solves more issues than you think given the current layout of the campus itself. 

[SIOUXFAN97]

16 minutes ago, Nodak1883 said:

There's still space available on campus to put more items if needed for future development. While the parking lot may have been dumb, the goal of it was to get students who live in McVey and West away from having to park in the Chester Fritz Performing Arts Center Lot to solve the following issues:

1. Students having to play frogger with traffic that could care less about pedestrians

2. People attending events at the CFPAC would have to park areas farther away because the CFPAC had 3 areas in the lot for different on-campus students depending on the residence hall they were in. 

3. Due to redevelopment of the east side of campus/core campus, there isn't a lot of parking in general in that area. The CFPAC lot has pretty much transitioned to the lot for commuting students who do buy a standard parking permit. 

Again, the parking lot may have been dumb, but it solves more issues than you think given the current layout of the campus itself. 

plenty of spce to put the top golf anywhere in this block....

[SiouxHawkGuy]

2 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

plenty of spce to put the top golf anywhere in this block....

Alerus Center 2.0

[SiouxHawkGuy]

2 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

plenty of spce to put the top golf anywhere in this block....

They should really straighten out Stanford - Striden, make it a 4 way intersection, and put u place where Walsh/squires was

[SIOUXFAN97]

2 hours ago, SiouxHawkGuy said:

They should really straighten out Stanford - Striden, make it a 4 way intersection, and put u place where Walsh/squires was

isn't stanford straight as an arrow? strinden?

[FSSD]

I believe the school is in the middle of a Campus Plan update.  Send your idea or comment in.  Here is link to the planning portal:  https://campus.und.edu/facilities-management/master-planning/index.html

[SiouxFan100]

20 hours ago, gfhockey said:

How many trains you get 

Never hit a train

way too close with the cars

[GeauxSioux]

33 minutes ago, SiouxFan100 said:

Never hit a train

way too close with the cars

Speaking of cars and trains, does anyone remember being able to cross over the railroad tracks from Demers to the campus next to a ditch with a submerged car.  I think it was right across from the Ray Richards clubhouse area.  I swear that car sat submerged there for 10 years.  My dad would use that "road" as his short cut to basketball games, long before CRO was built.