Kansan Summer Weekly/Wednesday, June 10, 1987
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Union renovations are on schedule
By STORMY WYLIE
Staff writer
This summer the third floor of the Kansas Union is just a skeleton of its former self.
James Long, director of the Kansas Union, said that while renovations have long been underway, the floor is completely gutted now. Eventually, the third floor will be one large restaurant, he said.
The renovations, which began in February, are on schedule, he said. The third floor construction is the first sequence in the first phase of the renovation project. It should be completed by January 1988.
in different locations."
"At this point we on schedule," he said. "We're watching it very closely because we have to remain in operation. The food service areas, bookstores and administrative offices are operating, but they're just
Long said the ongoing renovations shouldn't affect summer students in
"It it'd even affect the spring semester students that much," Long said. "There will be some inconveniences because some services are not where they were, but we will continue to offer them."
"We're just trying to take advantage of certain periods that will occur within the 23-to-24-month construction. The peak period is summertime."
Planning for the Union's $9.6 million renovation project began about two and a half years ago, Long said.
"The facility is 60 years old," he said. "It's one of the oldest in the nation of college union-type operations and the oldest in the Big Eight."
Long said the Union's mechanical
systems hadn't been improved since the 1920s and the food service areas hadn't been improved since the 1950s.
The second sequence of the first phase will involve renovations to the Union's second and fourth floors. This sequence is scheduled to be completed by August 1988, Long said.
Eventually, all of the bookstores will be located on level two. The Kansas Union Bookstore is currently located on level two and the Oread Book Shop is on level four.
The third sequence will involve moving the students' organizations and activities centers to where the Oread Book Shop is now, Long said. This sequence is expected to be completed by December 1988.
The second phase of the project will involve renovating several other service areas on level four.
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