New GVSU Master Plan Released

[BeachinLaker]

These are all pretty specific improvements, which tells me they're more than just "wish list" items. I think we'll actually start to see these things appear as priority donation projects on the giving page in short order. Also, these aren't improvements that you make to stay competitive in Division II...These are improvements that close the competitive facility gap for a move to D1.

[KleShreen]

Based on the information about the field house and the map it looks to me like the pool is going to be renovated and not demolished. It would be the offices, gymnastics/climbing room and classrooms in the middle that will be demolished which would leave the arena, pool and rec center all "free standing" buildings.




Interesting to see how they fit/where exactly the indoor courts will go. The only way I see it would work there is if they replaced the outdoor courts with the indoor. Which begs the question do they put outdoor courts somewhere else or not have any.

Based on the map, it looks like they're going to renovate the current pool and keep it as, I'm guessing, a rec center/public pool, that's the purple part on the "top" of the demolished hub. But then they're constructing a brand new Natatorium, which is the top blue section. It looks like that will be taking up the grass space that is currently at the northeast corner of the arena.

The largest blue section is the indoor courts, and yea it looks like it's just going to go where the current outdoor courts are. I would guess they just won't have outdoor courts anymore. There's not really a reason to have outdoor courts if you have indoor courts, I suppose.

Edit: Here's a better look at the map with everything labeled:

The light blue is "new construction", the purple is "renovations" and the red is "demolition". I don't know if the "Fieldhouse Addition" is the addition that is already currently being constructed for wrestling, or if this is another new addition, and the current construction is included in the purple "Arena" section.

[Gliac_fan10]

Looks like they plan on building a brand new Natatorium to replace the rather bad one GV already has, and then some renovations within the arena.

Based on the information about the field house and the map it looks to me like the pool is going to be renovated and not demolished. It would be the offices, gymnastics/climbing room and classrooms in the middle that will be demolished which would leave the arena, pool and rec center all "free standing" buildings.

Also pretty cool is the plan calling for indoor tennis courts, which kind of became needed after Ramblewood shut down their tennis facility, which is where GV hosted most of their matches.

Interesting to see how they fit/where exactly the indoor courts will go. The only way I see it would work there is if they replaced the outdoor courts with the indoor. Which begs the question do they put outdoor courts somewhere else or not have any.

[KleShreen]

Thought this was pretty interesting. GVSU released an updated master plan, which is a 10-year outlook on what the university wants to do with the school in terms of facilities and whatnot.

Of note to those of us here is the athletics section:





Looks like they plan on building a brand new Natatorium to replace the rather bad one GV already has, and then some renovations within the arena. Also pretty cool is the plan calling for indoor tennis courts, which kind of became needed after Ramblewood shut down their tennis facility, which is where GV hosted most of their matches. The plan also calls for turf and lights at the baseball and softball fields, but even Davenport has that, so it's not *that* significant, but a definite needed improvement.

Of course, the big part is the Lubbers Stadium part. Looks like they plan on renovating the existing seating, and adding what looks like possibly a second tier of seating on the east side?

If even a couple of these things actually happen, would be welcome improvements for the facilities that definitely need them. I don't know how often the master plans that are released actually turn out to be accurate, but it is fun to think about and discuss.