Changes are coming to
Michigan
State University's Case Hall, home to the
James Madison College and to the
Honors College.
Upon completion, Case will handle the
main food
service options on the campus' south side. With the
Skandalaris
Football
Center nearby, Case will be the main dining venue for athletes.
"We will be
renovating [Case] extensively," says Mitch Watt, vice-president of Grand
Rapids-based
Triangle
Associates, which will be
providing construction management for the project. "There will be a
focus on food service." Case Hall
will feature a 30,000 sq. ft. refurbishment valued at $16 million.
Case Hall will receive an 8,000 to 10,000 sq. ft. addition in addition
to a complete remodel. There will be six food service venues, including
an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Included in the plans are an 850-seat main seating area as
well as a
retail beverage outlet.
Triangle, in the role of construction manager, will oversee
pre-construction, planning strategy and contracting duties.
"[We're] just finishing designs and they
should be done by October," says Brent Gibson, a senior project manager.
This is not the first time MSU has hired Triangle for construction and
renovation. “We did
Owen Hall
with success and they brought us back," says Gibson, and the Case Hall
team is the same
team that worked on that project.
Source: Anne Rothwell, Mitch Watt, Brent Gibson at Triangle
Writer:
Daniel J. Hogan
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