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Ohio State University will use a $10 million gift from the country?s largest owner of Panera restaurants ? a huge Buckeye fan ? to build a 4,000-seat arena to replace the aging-but-iconic St. John Arena.

OSU leaders will honor Sam Covelli, 59, of Warren, Ohio, and his family at halftime of Saturday?s much-anticipated Ohio State-Michigan football matchup for making what they call ?one of the most transformational gifts ever? to the university.

It is the single-largest cash gift to Ohio State?s athletics department, they said. And it ranks 13th overall in terms of donations to the university as a whole, tied with 11 other $10 million donations.

?They?re just good, beautiful people who work hard and are very passionate about the Buckeyes,? athletic director Gene Smith said.

Covelli is owner of Covelli Enterprises, which is the largest single franchisee of Panera, with more than 250 restaurants in the United States and Canada, including several in central Ohio. The company is based in Warren and employs more than 20,000 people.

Smith said he hopes Covelli?s gift will inspire other donors.

The Covelli Arena will be home to seven varsity sports, including wrestling, volleyball and gymnastics, Smith said. It also will serve as a training facility for men?s and women?s volleyball, an occasional venue for women?s basketball and site of local tournaments and camps.

The arena will be built on the corner of Ackerman Road and Fred Taylor Drive. OSU hopes to break ground in late 2014 or early 2015.It is part of a long-range project to expand the school?s athletic district north of Woody Hayes Drive, Smith said.
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Just to add to the construction in the same general area or part of campus.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/04/03/Cranes_donate_$13.5_million.html

A $13.5 million donation from the Crane family will pay for a new sports medicine facility at Ohio State University that school officials say will be the biggest in the country.
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Good for Ohio State. I hope there will still be at least some grass in that area in the future.
 
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Just to add to the construction in the same general area or part of campus.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/04/03/Cranes_donate_$13.5_million.html

Good for Ohio State. I hope there will still be at least some grass in that area in the future.
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Ohio State University plans to build what it says will be the nation’s largest sports-medicine facility, offering both labs big enough to study athletes in motion and the space to hire more experts in sports-related fields.

A single donation will cover a large share of the cost: The Crane family, which owns several local companies, contributed $13.5 million for the building and two other OSU initiatives.

To honor the gift, university trustees are to vote on Friday to name the building the Jameson Crane Sports Medicine Institute, after the family’s 87-year-old patriarch. Jameson Crane is also a 1947 OSU graduate who played football there.

“Our university has been very important to us and has given us such pleasure both in terms of education and athletics. We always believe in giving back,” said Tanny Crane, an alumna of the university and president of the Crane Group, whose companies are focused primarily on the construction and building trades and include Crane Plastics.
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Smith says now that they “hope we can start construction in 2017” on Covelli, which will be built about a mile north of St. John at the corner of Ackerman Road and Fred Taylor Drive, but he notes that “we do not have a definite schedule … and we are still about $8 million away from our fundraising goal. We’re on track, but we still have a ways to go.” St. John’s best chance of clinging to life might rest with its immediate neighbors. French Field House to the west, which is home of the indoor track teams, and the OSU Ice Rink to the east share their mechanical and electrical infrastructure with St. John.

“We would have to replace French Field House and the Ice Rink before can even think about tearing down St. John,” Smith said. “The indoor track facility is a very big facility. You have to think about that. That’s going to be very difficult for us to fundraise for and eventually build.

“(Tearing down St. John) is so far out unless the university decided that they want access to that land quicker and decided to come up with a financial strategy to fund the track and the ice rink, and I don’t see that.”
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OHIO STATE RELEASES HIGH-DETAIL RENDERINGS OF FUTURE ATHLETICS DISTRICT

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The Covelli Center, a 3,700-seat arena will serve volleyball, gymnastics, fencing, wrestling, and sometimes women's basketball when it comes to fruition.

"This facility will change the entire game day experience for our volleyball team," head men's volleyball coach Pete Hanson said. "From the in-venue atmosphere to the technology used in player-development, we will be among the very elite in what we can offer both current and prospective student-athletes."

The Jennings Wrestling facility will provide an important leap forward for Tom Ryan's program. According to Ohio State, the new structure will include "a state-of-the-art practice facility, along with offices for coaches and student-athlete space."

"When you have a facility to the standard that this one is going to be, it screams value; it screams importance; it screams that when you come here, you are going to be treated in a first-class way," head wrestling coach Tom Ryan said.



Entire article: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...detail-renderings-of-future-athletic-district
 
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