Barron gets grilled by PA Rep about new art museum
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Just to stir the pot, since there is virtually no free parking anywhere on campus, why should the Arboretum be any different?
They can use that increase in parking revenue of $17,000/year to pay the $300,000 in debt service (whether real or implied) from the arboretum work. Common core says it’s logical.
Except they are completely different departments and budgets and I am sure the department getting the revenue would prefer to use the extra revenue for maintenance on parking facilities. 🤷♂️
Bad joke. A guy has to do something well …
Pocket pool instructions?Left pocket, right pocket.
I think all the parents who wish to provide their families with socialization and educational opportunities at SC on football weeends should be relegated to tailgate at the museum and arboretum. Now there’s a fundraiser opportunity!!🤪
IMO, the Arboretum, like the visitors center and baseball stadium, is a waste of prime football parking.
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Don't you just love how hard the university works to create good will with it's alumni and supporters?
You philistine! Now you're probably going to threaten to pummel me in the Champs parking lot. 😁
Yes. HVAB and the Centre County Visitor Center moved downtown in May. They're located at the ground level of the Fraser Street Parking Garage.
Serious question. Do we really need more classrooms given the growth of online learning?
So wait, are you good at telling bad jokes, or good at telling bad jokes poorly?
That should happen but it wont. They'll probably try and remodel The Forum instead.
Allied Works reveals plans for its expansion of the new Palmer Museum at Penn State
Final plans for the new LEED-certified museum expansion at Penn State have been unveiled this week after years of anticipation for a project with an ultimate price tag of $85 million. The project, announced by the school’s board of trustees in 2019, will significantly improve physical...
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From the article:
“The project, announced by the school’s board of trustees in 2019, will significantly improve physical spaces for the nearly 50-year-old Palmer Museum of Art, which has been plagued by water damage and an antiquated heating and air system for a number of years.”
$85 million.....amazingAllied Works reveals plans for its expansion of the new Palmer Museum at Penn State
Final plans for the new LEED-certified museum expansion at Penn State have been unveiled this week after years of anticipation for a project with an ultimate price tag of $85 million. The project, announced by the school’s board of trustees in 2019, will significantly improve physical...
From the article:
“The project, announced by the school’s board of trustees in 2019, will significantly improve physical spaces for the nearly 50-year-old Palmer Museum of Art, which has been plagued by water damage and an antiquated heating and air system for a number of years.”
Barron's Folly
I hope the "PA needs to give PSU more money" crowd is paying attention. In a situation of many needs -- elder care, pre-K, etc -- state government would be foolish to give PSU more money when the university can blow $85 million on something so frivolous
No doubt about that. The museum will be a prime destination for people from towns as far away as Snow Shoe and Millheim.
One could probably open a “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” museum downtown for a fraction of the cost and draw bigger crowds. How about one of those wax museum deals, now that would pack um in and add the requisite culture that Tallahassee Fats so deserves.
I believe the museum is being funded almost entirely through donations. The museum and the arboretum are one of the biggest fund raising draws that they university has to offer. They’ve outgrown their old building and, frankly, it was a very crappy location.
The aboretum, for example, is entirely funded by donations. The university pays for things like OPP support, but it’s peanuts compared to the donations.
So they've raised $65mm in the last three months? That's a shitload of dimes.
If you build it, they will pay.
Back in May, a PPG article on Barron's Folly stated:
"Penn State has raised almost $20 million and anticipates debt no greater than $62 million, which it says would not involve tuition revenue or general funds but would instead be subsidized by sources, including Big Ten Conference media revenues."
Let's acknowledge that (1) money is money and money used for the museum could have been used elsewhere, (2) the folks who have committed the $20 could have had their donations steered elsewhere such as scholarships, and (3) PSU counts commitments in fund raising totals in addition to cash in hand; these commitments include for example bequests that are payable upon death (which could be decades away)
Do they really have $20 million in hand for this project? Color me skeptical
