Denver Development Etceteras Thread #5 - Page 56

The Dirt · #**1101** Posted: **Apr 21, 2012, 10:50 PM**

I noticed that the new building on the south side of the Auraria campus is well underway. I was surprised there haven't been any pictures posted anywhere.

sphinx88844 · #**1102** Posted: **Apr 22, 2012, 12:13 AM**

I noticed that construction too - MSU is really building a lot lately.

bunt_q · #**1103** Posted: **Apr 22, 2012, 12:16 AM**

I think that's actually the new building for CCD.

bunt_q · #**1104** Posted: **Apr 22, 2012, 3:12 AM**

Anybody else catch this little pile of paper mâché art/graffiti before it was scooped up? Awesome.

Crush_Buds · #**1105** Posted: **Apr 22, 2012, 5:57 AM**

Thanks Cirrus.

That is fantastic Bunt q.

RyanD · #**1106** Posted: **Apr 22, 2012, 10:27 PM**

Went by the CCD site today and got a post up on DenverInfill..

http://denverinfill.com/blog/2012/04...ng-update.html

Brainpathology · #**1107** Posted: **Apr 22, 2012, 11:04 PM**

What's a learning and engagement building? Is that where pregnant high schoolers and their boyfriends go to class AND to get married?

The Dirt · #**1108** Posted: **Apr 23, 2012, 3:32 PM**

Nice work, Ryan! That was a pretty quick turnaround from me saying how I was surprised that I didn't see any pictures to a full fledged DI post.

The Dirt · #**1109** Posted: **Apr 23, 2012, 3:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by Brainpathology

What's a learning and engagement building? Is that where pregnant high schoolers and their boyfriends go to class AND to get married?

Nice.

What's up with the recent building spat of primarily administrative buildings? Does this open up existing buildings to more classroom space or do the current administrative rooms turn into custodial space?

wong21fr · #**1110** Posted: **Apr 23, 2012, 3:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by The Dirt

Nice.

What's up with the recent building spat of primarily administrative buildings? Does this open up existing buildings to more classroom space or do the current administrative rooms turn into custodial space?

The former. Which is also the reason for the whole "Student Success/Learning/Engagement" naming scheme for these buildings. It's easier to get students to vote to fund an administrative building if it's perceived to be for the students (UCD has the same plan for their upcoming building).

EngiNerd · #**1111** Posted: **Apr 23, 2012, 4:45 PM**

CU Boulder also just got one a year or two ago as well....the Center for Community

RyanD · #**1112** Posted: **Apr 23, 2012, 11:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by The Dirt

Nice work, Ryan! That was a pretty quick turnaround from me saying how I was surprised that I didn't see any pictures to a full fledged DI post.

Haha it was on my list of DI posts to do I just was busy / lazy and then when it was mentioned on here I was like alright fine..

PLANSIT · #**1113** Posted: **Apr 24, 2012, 2:37 AM**

Crane up at Museum of Nature and Science.

enjo13 · #**1114** Posted: **Apr 24, 2012, 2:43 AM**

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Originally Posted by wong21fr

The former.

Yep, my wife's office/classrooms are now in the former Metro administration building.

seventwenty · #**1115** Posted: **Apr 24, 2012, 4:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by wong21fr

The former. Which is also the reason for the whole "Student Success/Learning/Engagement" naming scheme for these buildings. It's easier to get students to vote to fund an administrative building if it's perceived to be for the students (UCD has the same plan for their upcoming building).

Where is this supposed building supposed to be? I recall that Auraria's neighborhood plan gave UCD room on the northern side of the soccer field, but whatever tree lot R is called these days is supposed to be for something else.

DenverInfill · #**1116** Posted: **Apr 24, 2012, 11:29 AM**

It will be located at the corner of Speer and Larimer.

Brainpathology · #**1117** Posted: **Apr 24, 2012, 2:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by wong21fr

The former. Which is also the reason for the whole "Student Success/Learning/Engagement" naming scheme for these buildings. It's easier to get students to vote to fund an administrative building if it's perceived to be for the students (UCD has the same plan for their upcoming building).

So when helping my nieces or nephews choose a college I should shy away from places where a simple building name change (to some variation of a Care Bear or My Little Pony name) can simultaneously insult the intelligence of the institution's students AND prove that the insult is warranted when they approve funding for it?

"We don't want a water faucet there.. .but we DO want a cellular respiration component success valve!"

mr1138 · #**1118** Posted: **Apr 24, 2012, 6:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by DenverInfill

It will be located at the corner of Speer and Larimer.

Will this be an expansion of their building across from Larimer Square, an expansion of the one of theirs across speer on the campus proper, or a new building altogether? I'm still hoping that one day the city will do a land swap with Auraria for that awkward parking lot in the center of Speer and close down that gigantic median (simultaneously expanding "Bell Park").

wong21fr · #**1119** Posted: **Apr 24, 2012, 7:02 PM**

^It will be a new building on the campus proper located on the parking lot (Redwood) bounded by Speer, Larimer, 12th, and Metro State's HLC.

It will have programming similar to Metro State's and CCD's new buildings: student services, administrative offices, academic offices, and some classroom space.

fleury · #**1120** Posted: **Apr 24, 2012, 7:33 PM**

They have begun fencing off the 2300 Walnut block! Just drove by this morning.