Fox School of Business at Temple University

The Alter Blogger is Baaack!

Drainage stone spread across Alter floor in preparation for slab pouring.

Well, after two delightful weeks in sunny Northern California, I can’t tell you how excited I am to be back in overcast and thunderstorm-prone Philadelphia

Actually, my last two days were spent in Happy Valley visiting the new Smeal School of Business at Penn State. There are a good many similarities between Penn State’s goals in building a new business facility and our own.  Their building costs around $70 million, ours will be around $80. Theirs is 210,000 square feet, ours 206,000 (not counting Speakman Hall). Like Penn State, we put a premium on student professional development, technology, globalization and entrepreneurship.  In both cases our business buildings are proxies for the excellence contained their in.  So as you might guess, I was very interested to learn what they had done well and what pitfalls to avoid as we progress on our own project.

It is quite exciting to, in effect, fast forward 19 months to see what those foundation walls and soil cellar will look like when Alter Hall opens in 2009. Thank you, Smeal, for reminding us that all the planning, inconvenience, noise, and disruption will have a Happy (not Valley) ending!

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