The Southern University $6.5 construction of the Horace Westley Moody Sr. Intramural Complex is near its completion, awaiting the arrival of furniture and exercise equipment.
With more than 33,000 square-feet in dimensions, the complex will include three aerobic rooms, locker rooms, a volleyball court, three full basketball courts, a health studio and a rock-climbing wall.
Endas Vincent director of Facilities Planning said the complex should be open by next month in October.
“It’s been a long time coming,” said Vincent.
Vincent said the plan to build the complex has been longer than ten years.
He said that there was a full set of plans that were abandoned.
“I think they didn’t have the funding for the other set of plans because they had to cut back on it,” said Vincent.
Vincent said that the university had to create new plans for the project that caused for a smaller project.
“It’s a nice size building for what we had to work with,” said Vincent.
According to Vincent the construction of the building has been complete since April.
Although the construction was completed, Vincent said the building still has more work to be done.
“There’s a lot of little details they have to work out,” said Vincent.
Even though the intramural complex’s completion is underway, Vincent said the university has over 80 projects lined up.
“We have a lot of Gustav projects that’s still in planning and progress,” said Vincent.
Vincent reported that there are over 60 renovations to be done from Hurricane Gustav.
“We do have some new projects that we’re looking at,” said Vincent.
He said the University is looking forward to a new cultural center to be added next to the Southern University Museum of Art near the Mississippi River.
According to Vincent some projects to take place have more than one fund going towards them.
“The President’s House has two sources of funds,” said Vincent.
As of now Vincent reported that there is no set budget for new projects due to the fact there are no designs drawn up for them.
“We’re not going to put a cost to them until an architect designs those projects,” said Vincent.
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Intramural complex on its way
September 12, 2013
The new edition to southern unversity is the brand new Horace Wesley Moody Intramural Sports Complex. The Intramural is a project that southern has been planning for over 10 years. The complex cost Southern University 6.2million dollars. The complex is nearly done, just need to be refurbish with brand new equipment and funiture. The Intramural Complex is supposed to be opening up sometime in october of the fall 2013 semester.
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