Dave Blanks welcomes a variety of guests to discuss ongoing and future construction at App State.
Campus Construction Updates
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Dave Blanks welcomes a variety of guests to discuss ongoing and future construction at App State.
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March 28, 2025
Campus Construction Update, March 28, 2025
This episode of Campus Construction Update features host Dave Blanks from University Communications in conversation with Associate Vice Chancellor of Facilities Management Nick Katers. They discuss ongoing and upcoming construction projects on campus including the restoration of the campus bell tower chimes, the completion of the new women’s softball field and major infrastructure improvements such as road closures, new traffic lights and the continued development of the Innovation Campus. The episode provides insight into the challenges and progress of these projects highlighting efforts to enhance campus safety, sustainability and student facilities. Transcript: Dave:Hey, folks, how's it going? I'm Dave Blanks from University Communications back with another Campus Construction Update video edition, and I'm joined by Mr. Nick Katers, hello, the Associate Vice Chancellor of Facilities Management. Welcome back to the studio, Nick. Nick:It's great to be here again. Dave:I'm glad you're here. Well, summertime's not upon us yet, it's not even spring yet, but we're talking about some of the summer projects that we have on tap and some of the things that we've checked off our list, one of which you can hear if you've come to campus. Nick:Absolutely. Dave: Yeah. Nick:So the bells are back by popular demand. We have repaired the chimes in the steam tower/bell tower, so you can hear them every hour on the hour. And we'll start mixing it up as we go forward here a little bit, so it'll get a little bit more exciting. Dave:What are we talking about, mixing it up? Nick:Oh, we've played music before. Dave:Okay. Nick:So I think we can gauge the mood of the campus and really be appropriate. Some good wins on some of these sports teams, we could get out there. Dave:Oh, sweet. Nick:Maybe not a little AC/DC, but something- Dave:Very appropriate for the bell tower. Exactly. Well, cool. Well, all right, so what happened to it? Why was it broken? Nick:It kind of wore out over a number of years, so a pretty expensive sound system was in there. And just from weather and everything else that it was faced with, it broke down right before COVID. And then we just never got around to replacing it. But this year, thanks to some initiative from my team, we've got the bells working again. Dave:I think our videographer, Malia, I don't know that she even knew that there were bells in the steam tower, so that's exciting. All right, well what else, Nick? Nick:I also want to just point out that the new women's softball field out at the old high school site App 105 is complete. And that's been a huge goal of ours to get this done for the start of the softball season. And the first women's home softball game is this Friday, the 21st of March at 12 o'clock. So we'll be able to sort of inaugurate our new stadium and it looks fantastic. Dave:It is beautiful. Nick:Yes. Dave:Yeah, it really is nice. And that's out on 105? Nick:Yeah, 105 where the old high school location was. Dave:Watauga High. Nick:Right. It's also outdoor tennis, the track and field complex, and now adding softball. Pretty soon we'll be adding the indoor tennis facility as well. Dave:Okay. Well, where does that go? It's kind of hard for this, but where is that in association? Nick:Between the track and field area and the new softball field? It'll be attached to the new field house that we have there. So this will be six indoor tennis courts. It'll be a fantastic facility. Dave:Sweet. Wow, that is wonderful. Nick:Yes. Dave:Well, cool. What else? Nick:So you've probably noticed we've got a lot of construction going on on campus right now. Dave:I noticed. Nick:We're at 43 projects, $350 million worth of placement, and it causes a lot of chaos across campus. One of the areas that's been hit the hardest is the Peacock AppalCart Circle. So we've been trying to slide it around and move it around in order to make it as safe as possible. So I think we've finally settled on not moving it out of
November 6, 2024
Campus Construction Update, November 6, 2024
Dave Blanks sits down with Nick Katers, Appalachian State’s Associate Vice Chancellor of Facilities Management, to talk about the new addition to Peacock Hall, home of the largest undergraduate College of Business in the UNC system. The two discuss the history of the Walker College of Business, the reasons behind the expansion to Peacock Hall, and what folks can expect during and after the project. Nick shares how this $40 million project is part of a phased transformation, set to finish in August 2026, that will ultimately include the long-awaited “daylighting” of Boone Creek to bring natural spaces to campus. Find out what’s next for this landmark project at Appalachian State! (Recorded September 18, 2024) TRANSCRIPT Dave Blanks: Hey folks. How's it going? I'm Dave Blanks from University Communications back with another campus construction update. I am joined today in studio by Nick Katers, Associate Vice Chancellor of Facilities Management. Howdy, Nick. How's it going? Nick Katers: Dave, it's good to be a part of this first one on video. Dave Blanks: Man, I know. I'm excited. It's very different. We've been exposed. Here we are. This is what we actually look like. Nick Katers: Right. Dave Blanks: Yeah, so we'll see how it goes. Today's topic is Peacock Hall, the addition to Peacock. Here's the plan for today. We'll see if I pull it off. We're going to start off with a little history lesson that'll take us up to present day just about the College of Business at Appalachian State. Nick Katers: Sure. Dave Blanks: After I get through with that, we're going to discuss the need for the addition, which is the topic today, and then we'll share some details on what that addition consists of, who it's going to benefit, how long is it going to take, what's the impact that we're going to deal with while it's being constructed and then just some of the positive stuff that's going to happen after it's built. Nick Katers: Great. Okay. Dave Blanks: So, yeah, how does that sound? Good plan? Nick Katers: It sounds good. Dave Blanks: I'm going to start out with my history lesson of the College of Business. Before I went to business.appstate.edu, I knew some of this, I didn't know all of this. We're starting in 1970, when the College of Business is officially founded at Appalachian State. So when it started, small and business classes were held in Smith-Wright Hall, which was part of the New Deal. It was a public works administration building, funded and completed by the PWA, and it was completed in 1940. Interesting little bit of history there. It's the current home of the Department of Psychology and it's right next door to us. But they weren't in there for long because Walker Hall was completed in 1975 and the College of Business moved there in '76. Walker College of Business and Walker Hall are both named in honor of John A. Walker. He was a Lowe's Company's founding director and always a strong supporter of Appalachian State and the College of Business. 15 years later, 1990, faculty and staff moved from Walker into a new College of Business building, 130,000 square feet, four-story structure in the middle of App's campus, named and dedicated in honor of Thelma, C. Raley. The dedication came in '93, the building was built in 1990. Then in 2014, with the Raley family's blessing, Raley Hall became Peacock Hall in honor of outgoing Chancellor Dr. Kenneth Peacock. And that takes us up to the addition is the next thing. But yeah, interesting history of the Walker College of Business. You can check it out at business.appstate.edu and we'll also put it in the show notes. Today's topic is the addition at Peacock Hall. So can we discuss a little bit about the need for the addition? We've mentioned it on previous campus construction updates, but why do we need an addition to Peacock? Nick Katers: Well, I think you could start out with just by looking at the age of Peacock, former Raley Hall, like you said, built in 1990. It's 30 ye
August 16, 2024
Campus Construction Update, August 16, 2024
Associate Vice Chancellor of Facilities Management Nick Katers and Vice Provost of Academic Program Development and Strategic Initiatives Mike McKenzie join University Communications’ Dave Blanks in studio to discuss Edwin Duncan Hall’s use as a space for art classes during the 2024-25 academic year, as well as the opening of the Holmes Drive Parking Deck, upgrades to the University Post Office and construction progress at the Appalachian 105 sports complex. New classroom spaces at App State's Hickory campus and parking changes for the Duncan Rankin/Peacock lots are also highlighted, along with the start of construction for the Peacock Hall addition project. TRANSCRIPT Dave Hey, folks, how's it going? I'm Dave Blanks from University Communications. Back with another campus construction update. I'm joined in the studio today by associate vice chancellor of facilities management, Mr. Nick Katers and vice provost of academic program development and strategic Initiatives Dr. Mike McKenzie. Today, it's a discussion of what to expect when you're returning to campus. Hello guys. Thanks for coming in. Nick Katers Hey. Mike McKenzie Yeah, thanks for having me. Dave Yeah, we appreciate it. You guys are regulars, I love it. I'm glad. I'm glad. You have great information. Nick, I guess we'll start out with you. Can you give us a little bit of a summary of everything that's gone on over the summer? As it has been a lot. Nick Katers It has been a lot. This is one of the busiest summers we've had. First off, the Holmes parking deck is open. 600 more parking spaces, for the university to be able to use. Also, the post office renovation is complete and that's going to be a fantastic new technology upgrade there. So you won't have to go up to the counter. Nick Katers You'll be able to go in and swipe in with your card. A locker will appear and you'll be able to go and take your stuff out of the locker for that day. So it's a completely automated post office. Nobody will have set boxes anymore. There'll be dynamic reassignment of boxes, and that's, that's really kind of a fascinating upgraded way to do mail. Nick Katers Also, we've been very successful with the weather this summer. So the App 105 Sports Complex is hitting a milestone this summer, too. We've finished the outdoor tennis courts, we're finishing up the women's softball. And we also have the auxiliary building finished up. That just leaves one more phase to go and that's the indoor tennis facility. Nick Katers Down at Hickory, we have three new classrooms coming online for this fall semester, all on the second floor. It's the beginning of the second floor renovation. Three new classrooms will include a laboratory space, a general computer science lab and a cybersecurity lab. So all of those happened over the summer. Also, we're really close on a couple of new traffic lights, and I'll talk traffic at the end here for what the construction impact is. Nick Katers But we're going to get a new traffic light at Hill Street to accommodate people crossing River Street from the new parking deck. Then the traffic light will be reinstalled out at App 105 to allow kids to get in and out of that giant parking lot a lot easier. And then the biggest accomplishment, I think, over the summer, was getting all of the functions that were still in Wey Hall, out of Wey Hall and redistributed to the other positions on campus. Nick Katers I’ll let Mike talk about where they went. Dave Yeah! Please, Mike, share with us. I mean, I've been keeping my eye on the Octagon as I've been walking past, and I know that's a part of it. Mike McKenzie Right, Yeah. So, Dave, if you remember, we talked previously about Wey Hall, just how it was unique in that that whole ground floor were not spaces that were really replicated anywhere on campus. It wasn't just as simple as, hey, this place needs a classroom. I can find you a classroom. These were places that very unique art
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