ASU/UofA Downtown Phoenix construction thread

[Vicelord John]

eh, you're right. I always think of the two as the same thing.

[HX_Guy]

Taylor St. / ASU dorms streetscape:

[THannay]

Originally Posted by HX_Guy

Taylor St. / ASU dorms streetscape:

That FedEx guy is struggling.

[Don B.]

Why are the people in these renderings partly invisible?

--don

[PHX31]

They're ghosts.

[JAHOPL]

Two words: Distance-learning.

They're students, but they're not really there, like Rio Salado's many on-line students in our community college district.

It makes it look cooler from an artistic standpoint?

[gymratmanaz]

It is a school for Mutants - X-Men!

OR

The students of ASU's past and future. Only the Fed X guy and the blue vested guy in the back middle are real.

I hope the Fed X guy is delivering furnature and indoor decor. The is no freakin furnature in this busy place!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Don B.]

Originally Posted by PHX31

They're ghosts.

Ghosts of Pedestrians Past, in Downtown Phoenix?

Apologies to Charles Dickens, of course.

--don

[JAHOPL]

Nearly every room in the Cronkite journalism building is up for naming-rights for a minimum of $10,000. A list of at least 50 rooms and spaces accompanied this article:

Your name on a new ASU building: $15 million
azcentral.com

"For $15 million, you could place your name on the new 223,000-square-foot building that will house the ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

It's set to relocate to downtown Phoenix this fall as one of the most technologically advanced media schools in the country. It's also viewed as key to downtown's rebirth.

Half a million bucks gets you naming rights to the library/student research center. For $10,000, you could put your name on an editing bay.

The school began its naming campaign this spring and has published a price and availability list.

Naming rights are certainly nothing new in higher education, but this effort is unique, said Christopher Callahan, the school's dean. (Naming rights to the dean's office cost $50,000).

"Typically when you have a naming program for a building, it's to pay for the building, the bricks and the mortar," he told The Buzz. "At ASU, we are in this wonderful position of being part of the city bond."

In 2006, Phoenix voters approved a $223.million bond issue that paid for the $71 million building.

"We get to put (the money) into programs for students, equipment, faculty, some of the immersion programs," Callahan said.

Are there any companies or institutions that would be prohibited from naming rights, because, well, it might be awkward?

For example, there might be eyebrows raised at a possible Hooters Student Services Suite ($250,000) or the Pink Taco faculty/staff lounge ($200,000).

"We don't have any set policies," Callahan said. "If there was a problem or a concern about something or someone, we would certainly address that."

[JAHOPL]

Actually, there's 145 room names up for sale, including 37 faculty offices and 19 tv editing bays. I wonder if University of Phoenix has any money left over from the football stadium's naming right for the journalism building name? I can see it now - the University of Phoenix Journalism Building.

Naming Opportunity (Available) - Amount - Location

Building (1) $15,000,000
Public Forum (1) $2,500,000 2nd floor
Broadcast Center (1) $2,000,000 6th floor
Theater (1) $1,000,000 2nd floor
Cronkite News Service Multimedia Newsroom (1) - $500,000 - 2nd floor
Marguerite and Jack Clifford Gallery - NAMED - 2nd floor
Library/Student Research Center (1) - $500,000 - 2nd floor
NewsWatch TV Newsroom (1) - $500,000 - 6th floor
Radio Newsroom (1) $500,000 3rd floor
Sony Instructional TV Studio NAMED 6th floor
Large Conference Room $400,000 4th floor
The Gannett New Media Innovation Lab Suite NAMED 2nd floor
Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship Suite (1) $250,000 2nd floor
Donald W. Reynolds Leadership Office Suite NAMED 3rd floor
Student Services Suite (1) $250,000 2nd floor
TV Digital-Editing Complex (1) $250,000 6th floor
The azcentral.com Classroom (1 large classroom remaining) NAMED 2nd floor
Faculty/Staff Lounge and Terrace Suite (1) $200,000 4th floor
NewsWatch TV Control Room (1) $200,000 6th floor
Student Media Suite (1) $200,000 4th floor
Seminar Room 1 (1) $150,000 4th floor
Teaching TV Control Room (1) $150,000 6th floor
Classroom (1) $100,000 3rd floor
Computer News Labs (6) $100,000 3rd floor
Radio Studio (1) $100,000 3rd floor
Weather Central Terrace NAMED 6th floor
Leadership Suite Conference Room (1) $75,000 3rd floor
Radio Control Room (1) $75,000 3rd floor
Seminar Room 2 (1) $75,000 3rd floor
Thomson Grass Valley TV Engineering Suite NAMED 6th floor
Christine Devine Multimedia Newsroom Conference Room NAMED 2nd floor
Dean's Office (1) $50,000 3rd floor
Faculty Conference Room (1) $50,000 3rd floor
Interview Conference Room (1) $50,000 2nd floor
Public Relations Conference Room $50,000 2nd floor
TV Conference Room (1) $50,000 6th floor
Autoscript TV Equipment Room NAMED 6th floor
Green Room (1) $35,000 6th floor
Administrative Deans and Directors'Offices (7) $30,000 2nd and 3rd floors
Clear-Com Communication Office (for Cronkite News Service TV Director) NAMED 2nd floor
Cronkite News Service Print Director's Office (1) $30,000 2nd floor
Digital Media Entrepreneurship Director's Office (1) $30,000 2nd floor
KNXV-TV/Scripps Howard Foundation Office (for TV News Director) NAMED 6th floor
New Media Innovation Lab Director's Office (1) $30,000 2nd floor
Production Manager's Office (1) $30,000 6th floor
Public Relations Director's Office (1) $30,000 2nd floor
Radio Director's Office (1) $30,000 3rd floor
Student Media Director's Office (1) $30,000 4th floor
Faculty Offices (37) $25,000 3rd and 4th floors
Advisers and Other Administrative Offices (10) $20,000 2nd and 3rd floors
Faculty Adjunct Offices (6) $20,000 3rd and 4th floors
Cronkite News Service Editing Bays (5) $10,000 2nd floor
Radio Editing Bays (9) $10,000 3rd floor
TV Editing Bays (19) $10,000 6th floor

[HX_Guy]

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...nkite0621.html

A couple cool things about the Cronkite Building...

One: It's $500,000 under budget.

Two: "Other high-tech finishes: A news ticker that will go on the outside of the building near Central Avenue and Taylor Street, said Kent Bosworth, a project director for the builder, Sundt Construction Inc.

[Vicelord John]

lets all chip in and buy the naming rights to the tv editing bays.

we can call them the super awesome #1 editing bays

and a news ticker on taylor and central? Whos gonna look at it? this isn't times square.

[kevininlb]

Sounds cool. Hopefully, there will be enough students walking around soon who will glance up and see the news. Maybe...

[HX_Guy]

Or people sitting at the Civic Space Park...that is, if the ticker is large enough to be seen from a bit further away.

[gymratmanaz]

and the passing light rail paseengers will see it too.

[scottkag]

Originally Posted by HX_Guy

Or people sitting at the Civic Space Park...that is, if the ticker is large enough to be seen from a bit further away.

I thought I read somewhere that it was going to be called John Vandercook park?

Couldn't they use the extra $500K to put something really cool out there? Laser defense perimeter? Holographic waterfront? A real big shiny statue of Vandercook?

[tempedude]

Isn't there some type of public art going to be mounted on the Cronkite building also? I forget what exactly it is...but I seem to recall it had something to do with the wind/air movement.

[gymratmanaz]

The wind art is in the park across the street. BUT I do recall some sort of light art on the Cronkite building.....anyone else recall this???

[Vicelord John]

Originally Posted by scottkag

Laser defense perimeter?

screw the statue of me... I vote for this ^^^

[HX_Guy]

Looking at a couple of pictures, I'm guessing the news ticker will go above the main entrance and have an L shape to it. It looks like there are brackets already installed as well as wires for data/electricity.