Which one of y'all gifted MU 10 big ones for a new Jesuit residence and schollie bread?
Wild gonna Wild.
Fr. Wild likes 2 things, fundraising and winning basketball games. Wonder what his next trick is?
http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/marquette-university-gets-anonymous-10-million-gift-b99192370z1-242228701.html
One block north of the current building...so wouldn't that put it on Wells?
How is that the "center of campus" as Father Bob states? Maybe I have my directions mixed up
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on January 27, 2014, 11:46:41 AM
http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/marquette-university-gets-anonymous-10-million-gift-b99192370z1-242228701.html
One block north of the current building...so wouldn't that put it on Wells?
How is that the "center of campus" as Father Bob states? Maybe I have my directions mixed up
It's the center of campus, no doubt.
I'm guessing this is going between Schroeder and the AMU then.
Since they said reduce surface parking, it's probably that area.
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Quote from: PTM on January 27, 2014, 11:52:30 AM
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Although my instincts are that it'll only need 1/2 that footprint, likely up on Wells.
OK, makes sense....when it said "one block north", I took that literally to be a street block. It's more like 200 feet north east. So since the Jesuits are dwindling in numbers, does this make it a smaller building? I suspect bigger, but ask anyway.
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on January 27, 2014, 11:55:32 AM
OK, makes sense....when it said "one block north", I took that literally to be a street block. It's more like 200 feet north east. So since the Jesuits are dwindling in numbers, does this make it a smaller building? I suspect bigger, but ask anyway.
It's a pretty big building already. I bet they try to mimic Schroeder a bit a do a longer building. The whole dumbbell shaped buildings are out of style since the invention of modern HVAC and plumbing.
So now what happens to the hole in the Varsity wall that looks directly at the current Jesuit residence?
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on January 27, 2014, 11:46:41 AM
http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/marquette-university-gets-anonymous-10-million-gift-b99192370z1-242228701.html
One block north of the current building...so wouldn't that put it on Wells?
How is that the "center of campus" as Father Bob states? Maybe I have my directions mixed up
Yeah-- I think the center of campus comment was intended to refer to the old jes res which will be torn down and that land will become part of a larger green space, which at least is closer to the center.
Quote from: LloydMooresLegs on January 27, 2014, 12:06:51 PM
Yeah-- I think the center of campus comment was intended to refer to the old jes res which will be torn down and that land will become part of a larger green space, which at least is closer to the center.
Its also opposite the walkway under the library bridge, which seems to have become the main "entry" way to the academic side of campus. So, if you do a good job of rehabbing the old Jes Res site, should provide a nice connection/flow between the AMU/"student life" side of campus with the academic side.
Also, I wonder if this will eventually also open up space to expand and update the AMU.
An MU admin told me when I was a student that the plan was to build a new residence hall in that location, with the bottom four or five floors dedicated to Jesuit housing. I wonder if that is still the plan?
The worst part of this plan is the very short distance between facing windows in Schroeder and the new building. I'm not completely over all the things I saw looking across the courtyard to the other side of OD...
Quote from: ChicosBailBonds on January 27, 2014, 11:55:32 AM
OK, makes sense....when it said "one block north", I took that literally to be a street block. It's more like 200 feet north east. So since the Jesuits are dwindling in numbers, does this make it a smaller building? I suspect bigger, but ask anyway.
Yeah, describing it as "one block north" is just plain inaccurate.
The article states, "The new residence will be 35,000 to 45,000 square feet and is expected to house about 30 Jesuits," and doesn't mention the size of the current Jes Res, but does say that the building now houses 44.
Quote from: LloydMooresLegs on January 27, 2014, 12:06:51 PM
...old jes res which will be torn down and that land will become part of a larger green space, which at least is closer to the center.
So what would this mean for the Secret Garden? The Jesuits love that small hidden sanctuary.
Quote from: Bricky on January 27, 2014, 01:48:03 PM
So what would this mean for the Secret Garden? The Jesuits love that small hidden sanctuary.
Now they can look out their windows into college kid's dorm rooms. That should be plenty of contemplative entertainment for them.
What's going up across the street at Wells and 14th? Used to be Kampus Foods, Subway, China Garden/Sweeney's.
Quote from: WarriorCode on January 27, 2014, 08:26:04 PM
What's going up across the street at Wells and 14th? Used to be Kampus Foods, Subway, China Garden/Sweeney's.
A private developer is building a student apartment building. I think there will be some retail space on the ground floor.
Quote from: MUfan12 on January 27, 2014, 08:46:40 PM
A private developer is building a student apartment building. I think there will be some retail space on the ground floor.
Too bad. I always thought that would have been a perfect place for a bar. Knock the current building down. 2 story bar with the top floor containing an open air patio. Someday... :(
Quote from: WarriorCode on January 27, 2014, 08:26:04 PM
What's going up across the street at Wells and 14th? Used to be Kampus Foods, Subway, China Garden/Sweeney's.
No more Subway on campus?!? They're just trying to force kids at Schroeder to eat the dining hall food.
Quote from: 4everwarriors on January 27, 2014, 11:40:46 AM
Which one of y'all gifted MU 10 big ones for a new Jesuit residence and schollie bread?
I did it. I had made a bundle on pimping the latest all grain fad diet.
Quote from: chapman on January 28, 2014, 07:57:51 AM
No more Subway on campus?!? They're just trying to force kids at Schroeder to eat the dining hall food.
Subway's going back in.
Personally, I really hope that Marquette at least entertains offers from GCs other than Opus. While a great company, there are plenty of other Marquette led GCs out there that can build harder/better/faster/stronger than, if not better than Opus.
Quote from: chapman on January 28, 2014, 07:57:51 AM
No more Subway on campus?!? They're just trying to force kids at Schroeder to eat the dining hall food.
It is my understanding that Subway will be in the new building, along with a CVS Pharmacy - good to have some competition for Walgreens.
Here is the website for the new building
http://ivyon14.com/
Note that their claim "from $562" is per person in a multiple-bedroom apartment. Not exactly the type of hovel I lived in as a student.
Quote from: warriorchick on January 28, 2014, 08:06:04 AM
It is my understanding that Subway will be in the new building, along with a CVS Pharmacy - good to have some competition for Walgreens.
Here is the website for the new building
http://ivyon14.com/
Note that their claim "from $562" is per person in a multiple-bedroom apartment. Not exactly the type of hovel I lived in as a student.
Who are these parents who can afford tuition and premium housing?
Quote from: The Lens on January 28, 2014, 08:27:06 AM
Who are these parents who can afford tuition and premium housing?
Fully furnished, with washer and dryer? Sounds worth it. Look a bit smaller than the 2040 Lofts, which if you signed the Early Bird special, which they honored until you moved out, that was the biggest steal on campus. Their rates now, not so much.
The room names are stupid. The Wade, The Blue, The Golden Avalanche, The Rivers & The Thompson.
I4's still got a hundo in his pocket.
Quote from: PTM on January 28, 2014, 08:37:40 AM
Fully furnished, with washer and dryer? Sounds worth it. Look a bit smaller than the 2040 Lofts, which if you signed the Early Bird special, which they honored until you moved out, that was the biggest steal on campus. Their rates now, not so much.
The room names are stupid. The Wade, The Blue, The Golden Avalanche, The Rivers & The Thompson.
Its intended to compete with 2040 Lofts at the high end of student housing. I suspect that the university was very supportive of the project. In this particular case, they achieved significant urban renewal literally right across the street from the AMU without having to invest their own dollars.
It is also my understanding that the old Jes Res will be eventually razed and replaced with enhanced green space. I suspect when this is all over, only two surface lots will remain in the 11th to 16th Wells/WI corridor that being the lot across from the Al (including the small private Zilber lot) and the tiny lot directly on the corner of 16th/Wells. I further suspect the 16th Street lot might be part of a long range redevelopment plan along that street.
Quote from: PTM on January 28, 2014, 08:37:40 AM
Fully furnished, with washer and dryer? Sounds worth it. Look a bit smaller than the 2040 Lofts, which if you signed the Early Bird special, which they honored until you moved out, that was the biggest steal on campus. Their rates now, not so much.
The room names are stupid. The Wade, The Blue, The Golden Avalanche, The Rivers & The Thompson.
The Crean room is in the basement right next to the trash compactor.
Quote from: PTM on January 28, 2014, 08:37:40 AM
Fully furnished, with washer and dryer? Sounds worth it. Look a bit smaller than the 2040 Lofts, which if you signed the Early Bird special, which they honored until you moved out, that was the biggest steal on campus. Their rates now, not so much.
The room names are stupid. The Wade, The Blue, The Golden Avalanche, The Rivers & The Thompson.
"God damn it! You can't keep doing that in my room just because it's called the Golden Avalanche!"
Quote from: warriorchick on January 28, 2014, 08:06:04 AM
It is my understanding that Subway will be in the new building, along with a CVS Pharmacy - good to have some competition for Walgreens.
Here is the website for the new building
http://ivyon14.com/
Note that their claim "from $562" is per person in a multiple-bedroom apartment. Not exactly the type of hovel I lived in as a student.
2001, if I remember correctly, Campus Town for a 3 bedroom, was around $1250, and included utilities and cable. Split amongst 6 dudes, looking back, now that's a steal.
3 dudes and 3 chicks woulda been better, hey?
Quote from: LittleMurs on January 28, 2014, 11:10:01 AM
"God damn it! You can't keep doing that in my room just because it's called the Golden Avalanche!"
my college crib was called "the Wilt Chamberlain"
Quote from: 4everwarriors on January 28, 2014, 12:10:33 PM
3 dudes and 3 chicks woulda been better, hey?
Or 1 dude and 5 chicks.
I'd prefer 6 dudes. The more dudes the better.
Quote from: reinko on January 28, 2014, 11:27:18 AM
2001, if I remember correctly, Campus Town for a 3 bedroom, was around $1250, and included utilities and cable. Split amongst 6 dudes, looking back, now that's a steal.
You would be hard-pressed to find six people in a 3-bedroom these days. Sharing a bedroom in a student apartment is more the exception than the rule. That is actually a source of controversy concerning Campustown. They would have enough space for everyone who wants to live there if it was two students per bedroom, but because in many cases there are only 3 kids on a 3-bedroom lease, there is always a waiting list. Many people think that since this is university-owned housing, students that can get two names per bedroom on the lease should have priority.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on January 28, 2014, 01:37:33 PM
my college crib was called "the Wilt Chamberlain"
Seven foot ceilings?
Quote from: PTM on January 28, 2014, 08:37:40 AM
The room names are stupid. The Wade, The Blue, The Golden Avalanche, The Rivers & The Thompson.
The Blue floorplan is for students who abandon their apartment 3/4 of the way through the lease term.
Quote from: warriorchick on January 28, 2014, 04:31:51 PM
The Blue floorplan is for students who abandon their apartment 3/4 of the way through the lease term.
They planned a Dawson Floor but the architect did not give it a chance.
They also had plans for "The Crean" floor plan until they realized that there wouldn't be room for the tanning bed, hyperbaric chamber, ATV parking and a kimono closet.
One more, they wanted a Derrick Wilson Floor, but could not decide if it was on the top floor, in the middle, in the basement, or on the drain line to the sewers.
Quote from: PTM on January 28, 2014, 08:37:40 AM
Fully furnished, with washer and dryer? Sounds worth it.
Seems very competitive with rent I was paying near campus 6-7 years ago. IIRC, low $400's with three roommates, had to buy furniture that was mostly thrown out when we graduated, had to steal quarters from parents whenever going home to do laundry. Though I suppose that is the "starting at" rate.
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The room names are stupid. The Wade, The Blue, The Golden Avalanche, The Rivers & The Thompson.
Guess the developer/manager is local. How many students these days even know what all the names are referring to? They probably think the Thompson is for Ted Thompson or Tommy Thompson.
Who are these parents that don't make their kids bunk up?
Does anyone know if the donor asked for the money to be used for the Jes Res?
I don't doubt there is a need for it, but there is also need elsewhere on campus. The Wehr Science building for example are in pretty rough shape. There are professors in the Wehr Life Science building that are literally working in an unfinished basement. I'm a bit bias as a Biochemistry graduate, but if you want to attract top faculty that bring big grant $$ with them, you can't exactly stick them in the basement.
If I ever have a disposable $10MM I'm going to fund the Spartan3186 Life Science building.
Quote from: spartan3186 on January 28, 2014, 09:20:22 PM
Does anyone know if the donor asked for the money to be used for the Jes Res?
Seems like they did. And as the biased alum, I hope to see a new College of Business building at some point in time. Realize we're down the list, but it's going to be necessary to keep pace with the competition. Villanova just got this dandy for their School of Business (http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/business/newsevents/news/pressreleases/2013/1028.html ), and it appears they're going to do a lot of great things with the funds with facilities an afterthought, which isn't surprising as it's already a palace compared to Straz. Actually having a Dean helps matters.
I guess I wonder why they need to spend $15 million to house 30 priests. That a half-million per. It might be cheaper to buy each one of them a nice lakefront condo.
In my era that would be called the Barry Brennan.
Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on January 28, 2014, 01:37:33 PM
my college crib was called "the Wilt Chamberlain"
Always thought Barry lacked the talent to play in games. Maybe he was just plain too exhausted to participate, hey?
Quote from: spartan3186 on January 28, 2014, 09:20:22 PM
Does anyone know if the donor asked for the money to be used for the Jes Res?
I don't doubt there is a need for it, but there is also need elsewhere on campus. The Wehr Science building for example are in pretty rough shape. There are professors in the Wehr Life Science building that are literally working in an unfinished basement. I'm a bit bias as a Biochemistry graduate, but if you want to attract top faculty that bring big grant $$ with them, you can't exactly stick them in the basement.
If I ever have a disposable $10MM I'm going to fund the Spartan3186 Life Science building.
Yes, $7.5MM was specifically for jes res.
Quote from: The Lens on January 28, 2014, 08:19:10 PM
Who are these parents that don't make their kids bunk up?
Good luck winning that battle Lens. We're pleased that my son's group next year is 4 guys into a 3 bedroom Renee Row unit where two drawn by lot will share the loft.
Oy, that building is gonna be an eyesore when its built. That will be a very crowded area in terms of buildings.
Quote from: jsglow on January 29, 2014, 11:31:25 AM
Good luck winning that battle Lens. We're pleased that my son's group next year is 4 guys into a 3 bedroom Renee Row unit where two drawn by lot will share the loft.
My junior year we had 5 in one of those our rent was $233/ per.
Senior year they raised rent which came to $244 / per. I was so scared to tell my parents. Then we found a 6th and lowered it to $203 / per. That was the best phone call I made to my parents in my whole 4 years of college.
Just a guess but David A seems to still be doing quite well. His name is all over Tampa. This from 2009.
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Tampa arts benefactor David A. Straz Jr. values treasures, and shares his
John Fleming, Times Performing Arts Critic
Sunday, December 6, 2009 9:01pm
Until a few weeks ago, David A. Straz Jr. was not a household name in Tampa. To be sure, the retired banker was known in business and social circles as a generous contributor to good causes. He has served on the boards of Tampa General Hospital and the University of Tampa, where a residence hall is named for him.
Straz's relatively low profile was about to change when he asked Judy Lisi, president and chief executive officer of the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, to have lunch with him and his wife, Catherine Lowry, at the Palm Restaurant in early September.
Straz, 67, had donated to the center's annual fund drive in the past — most recently, $37,000 in 2008 — but now he and his wife had decided to up their commitment.
"My heart started beating,'' Lisi said, recalling the lunch, also attended by Bill Faucett, director of endowment and planned giving for the center. "I thought this could be a big moment.''
Straz told Lisi and Faucett that he and his wife had talked things over during the summer, which they spent in Straz's hometown of Milwaukee. The couple had decided "to accept their largest ask,'' Straz said. "We wanted to do something in a very significant way.''
Lisi and Faucett were "speechless,'' Straz said. "Judy was in tears. We had a good bottle of sauvignon blanc. Judy usually doesn't have any wine with lunch, but she did that day.''
The Strazes made what the center called the largest individual philanthropic gift to a cultural institution in Tampa Bay history. The amount was not disclosed when it was announced in November, but it was probably around $25 million.
"I don't want to discourage people from giving more,'' Straz said, explaining why he declines to say how much he gave. "If you disclose an amount, that might have an impact on what someone else might do.''
And now the financier has his name in lights with the renaming of the center as the David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts.
"That was not my idea,'' Straz said of the new name, though donations have landed his name on other buildings, including the college of business administration and a residence hall at Marquette University, his alma mater in Milwaukee.
"I agreed to allow them to put my name on the center to perhaps encourage others to come forward and do similar things,'' he said.
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The first thing that catches your eye in the Straz house is the crystal chandelier hanging inside the front door.
"That's a Strauss chandelier,'' said Straz, greeting a guest on a weekday afternoon. "We have three of them.''
In some ways, the glittering chandeliers are mere footnotes to the treasures of the Straz residence, a vast pink-orange Mediterranean-style palazzo in the Beach Park neighborhood. The two-story, six-bedroom property, which includes a pool, tennis court and guest house, is enclosed by a wall and high-security gate.
Straz and Lowry are sophisticated art collectors, and it is bedazzling to take in all the pictures on their walls, mainly French impressionists and post-impressionists. One of Degas' famed paintings of ballet dancers hangs near the grand piano. There's a Monet farm scene in the house's small elevator off an inner courtyard. Another Monet hangs above the fireplace.
The Monets and the Degas are part of a collection that also includes paintings by Pissarro, Picasso, Renoir, Matisse and Cassatt. The value of the collection is "well into nine figures,'' Straz said.
Then there are the rococo porcelain figures from Dresden, Germany; the whimsical Judith Leiber luxury handbags, which Straz enjoys giving to his wife on special occasions, like a Teddy Bear bag to mark the birth of their 14-year-old daughter, Keebler; the French tapestries.
"It's fun,'' he said while giving a tour of his artwork. "It's fun to live around all these beautiful things.''
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Straz made his fortune by starting up and selling chains of banks, first in Wisconsin, then in Florida, shrewdly exploiting the wave of bank mergers over the past 30 years. He bought his first bank in 1967, just two years after graduating from Marquette with a degree in finance. That farm bank in Grand Marsh, Wis., grew into First Bank Southeast, a 26-bank chain sold for $55 million in 1994.
He moved to Florida in 1980 "to get out of the cold winters'' and settled on St. Pete Beach, where he bought First Gulf Beach Bank & Trust — he still has an ashtray with a painting of the bank on it. Another acquisition was Southern Exchange Bank, a chain he sold to First National Bank of Florida of Naples for $150 million in 2003.
Nowadays, Straz spends a lot of time on his philanthropic efforts, which include several projects at schools in West Africa. They have come about because of his role as honorary consul general in the United States for Liberia.
Straz makes annual donations to nonprofit organizations, primarily educational and arts institutions, through his family foundation, which has assets of about $50 million. (Total gifts last year: $2,026,116.) He does all the investing himself and has posted average annual returns of about 10 percent since 1993.
The foundation's mission statement says beneficiaries must have a balanced budget. One exception is the Metropolitan Opera, which received $375,000 last year but had a deficit. Straz is a director of the Met, often taking one of his two jet planes up to New York for lunch and an afternoon board meeting, returning to Tampa in the evening.
"I recognize what an important institution that is for the whole world," said Straz, whose taste runs to light opera. "But if I strictly followed our mission statement, and they're aware of this, then they would be off the list.''
• • •
Straz dates his emergence in Tampa to 1994, when he and his wife moved from Belleair Shore to the Beach Park mansion, which they bought for $3.2 million. It's one of six residences they own, with the others in Pass-a-Grille; Milwaukee; Aspen, Colo.; Highlands, N.C.; and Nevis, West Indies.
Straz had been introduced to Lowry, a Tampa native, by a friend at First Florida Bank, where she also worked. When the couple wed in 1986, he was 44 and had never been married. "I worked seven days a week in the bank and devoted all my time to work,'' he said.
Lowry is an old family name in Tampa, and Catherine, 53, is board chairwoman of the Lowry Park Zoo. However, she is not a descendant of its namesake, Gen. Sumter Loper Lowry. She comes from another Lowry family.
"Biologically, we're not related,'' Lowry said. "This has been a confusing issue because of the similarity of the name and the proximity of social circles. It's like the Murphys in Ireland. There are a number of Lowry families in the Tampa Bay area.''
Indeed, several speakers referred to Lowry's old Tampa family connection when the Straz gift was announced in a ceremony at the performing arts center. Straz himself wasn't completely familiar with the family tree until recently. "I know all the Lowrys, and I just figured they were all part of the same crowd,'' he said.
Straz has made close friends in clubby South Tampa, such as Stan Harrell, a retired health care company owner, who introduced the Midwesterner to "the gentlemanly Southern sport of quail hunting'' on his South Georgia plantation.
"David had never shot a shotgun in his life until he began shooting with me,'' said Harrell, 75. "When he undertakes a new adventure, he's not going to be mediocre at it. He studied the art of shooting and has become quite good at it.''
Every June, Straz organizes a fishing expedition for a group of buddies, often including Harrell and former Tampa Mayor Dick Greco. They fly into a fish camp in Canada near the Arctic Circle and catch trophy-size northern pike.
Straz has kept details of his gift to the center quiet. "David is a very private person,'' Harrell said. "I've known about the gift for a while, but I never knew, and still don't know and never will ask, the size of it. All I know is that him stepping up like that may be a good omen for other people in our community to do the same.''
John Fleming can be reached at fleming@sptimes.com or (727) 893-8716. He blogs on Critics Circle at blogs.tampabay.com/arts.
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Quote from: 5YearsatMU on January 29, 2014, 11:20:07 AM
Yes, $7.5MM was specifically for jes res.
I saw that the article said that, but my question was whether that was at the direction of the donor or the university. I didn't read the article that way.
Quote from: spartan3186 on January 29, 2014, 06:48:30 PM
I saw that the article said that, but my question was whether that was at the direction of the donor or the university. I didn't read the article that way.
It was at the direction of the donor.
Quote from: The Lens on January 29, 2014, 12:04:08 PM
My junior year we had 5 in one of those our rent was $233/ per.
Senior year they raised rent which came to $244 / per. I was so scared to tell my parents. Then we found a 6th and lowered it to $203 / per. That was the best phone call I made to my parents in my whole 4 years of college.
I like guys like you.