hodgie

If GM is interested in Greenville, I'm concerned about the fact that the latest restructuring scenario being shown in the news involves the vast majority of the "new" GM being owned by the government (currently very pro-union) and a UAW health care trust. Being a haven from unions may not be a good thing...but let's hope so anyway.

I've never heard anything about renting it out, but I suppose its possible. There have been quite a few gatherings put on in the Carolina First Gallery in the past, so I would think that something might be able to be worked out for the patio as well...just a guess, though.

I'm not knocking the concept behind ICAR, nor am I against it being developed as a first-class facility...afterall, I work there, and owe my livelihood to its existence. But, as I posted previously, there have been a lot of things that seem to have been extremely wasteful throughout the process. For example, as I write this there is a crew with jackhammers and sledgehammers working to tear down a section of a wall for the monolith/campus garden along I-85 (BTW, what the "monolith" part will be is apparently still TBD), which was poured on/about Monday. I'm sure that there's a perfectly legitimate reason for them to do so, but they don't seem to be in any hurry to get it finished. I'm not accusing anyone of anything, I just can't help buy wonder how much oversight has been involved in these projects.

I agree that they're a cool little detail, but I shudder to think how much cost was involved. These pavers were put in after the fact, meaning that there were "plain" pavers in their places before, then workers came back in, removed the plain pavers and replaced them with these. This is probably relatively minor item, but when you see this kind of thing go on here at ICAR day-after-day, you start to wonder why...

I work at CU-ICAR, and the explanation I got was that the PVC structures are mockups of two possible "icons" for the campus, and that there are folks traveling up and down I-85 looking at them to see which they like best. I'm not sure if the initially proposed spire is still in the running or not.