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Woody Hayes Athletic Center (Official Thread)

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WHAC Renovation (Virtual Pics)

I took the liberty of meshing the satellite image with the map of the future WHAC (my best guess at new items are outlined in red). See the attached thumbnail if you do not see a map below:

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Here is the current WHAC via satellite on google maps


Renovation Pictures on Coach Tressel.com

Visit the above link for more pictures (including outside)
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This was brought over from the BN $ board, but the coach tressel thing is free for viewing.

As brought up in that thread, 1970 is missing, and 1933 has suddenly appeared.

1) Hard to get a good idea of what it will be like from these renderings, but I hope they can somehow maintain the current entrance. That is a wonderful room.


***Unrelated to the first post***

2) While googling to find more info, I ran across this:

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The Ohio State University Woody Hayes Athletic Center Feasibility Study[/FONT]

Is this just some random preliminary project?
 
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an interesting side note and I assume it has to do with the fact that the Woody Hayes is under contruction now, but I read where the French Fieldhouse is now owned by the athletic dept. and only open to Varsity Athletes
 
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What the hell is this? I know it appears to be a pool, but it doesn't seem like it belongs in the WHAC.
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As for these, do we really need a pool hall and lounge like this in the WHAC?
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Yes We do, it was all paid for with private money and is going to be fo more athletes than just football. I beleive from what I have seen and heard it is going to house allot of other athletic teams than the current one can hold. This way the players can have meetings, study halls, and relax and have social time there. Which is much better than being at some shithole bar where some dumbass might start a fight. As for the pool it may be a rehab type pool
 
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http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2005/11/14/story5.html
Woody Hayes center on target for $19.5M upgrade, sans public funds

Jeff Bell Business First
[FONT=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] A proposed $19.5 million facelift and expansion could lift the Woody Hayes Athletic Center back into the upper echelon of collegiate football training sites. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman,Times,Serif][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] That is how Ohio State University athletics department officials see things as a Nov. 15 deadline nears for construction bids on the project. [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] An overhaul of the hulking complex off Olentangy River Road on the northwest edge of campus would more than double the size of the building's football wing and add a 15,000-square-foot aquatic therapy pool area for use by all university athletes. [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] Project managers said the work will put the 20-year-old Hayes Center more in tune with the times in the ultra-competitive world of big-time college football. [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] "In 1986, we led the charge," said Don Patko, the athletics department's director of facilities. "Since then, we've taken multitudes of people through (the center) on tours. But as times changed, other schools were building, too. Now it's time for us to add to ours and update it." [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] Private fundraising [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] Such facility upgrades are common on the major college football scene, said Corey Miller, a project manager for Heery International Inc., an Atlanta-based architectural firm that is lead designer for the Hayes center improvements. [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] "What happens," Miller said, "is one school starts to build a new facility or update an existing one, and word gets around. Ohio State's facility hasn't been touched in 20 years. This update will take it to the current design in the (NCAA) Division I-A community." [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] Highlights of the $14 million base construction package include expanding the football team's strength and conditioning room, renovating its locker room, creating a players lounge, and adding a new lobby leading to the football wing. [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] There will also be a 7,500-square-foot addition to house offices for the football team's assistant coaches. [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] Renovations will be made to the existing 33,000-square-foot football wing, and a total of 45,000 square feet will be added to the east and north sides of the Hayes center. [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] All areas will be connected to the center's signature structure: The 90,000-square-foot, 65-foot-high indoor football field. [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] Two other projects - an aquatic gymnasium pool and an area with a racquetball court and half-basketball court - are being bid as well. [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] Their estimated price tag is about $5.5 million. [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] All the money for the projects will come from private gifts to the athletics department, Patko said. About $17 million has been committed so far.
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Oh ok I know see they are expanding the building.

But my question is, where will the additions go?

They have housing on the north side of the property. Baseball and softball fields right against the practice fields. Unless they are planning on expanding towards the road, but then parking will become an issue.

Anybody have an idea how this would work?
 
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:osu: So this is where MY MONEY is going? LOL! I already knew that but my pledge is specifically for the locker room and the "sponsor a locker program". The pool I think is called a Turtle pool or some shit like that...for therapy etc. It has strong current and whatnot, high tech shit. This place is gonna be bad ass and hell, what a recruiting tool for all the sports!

HAYN
 
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