OT: Barnes Center

[TexanMark]

With it being Parents Weekend they were letting anyone come in. Truly amazing facility...a long way from my era. SU had to do something like this to compete.

Early 1980s: Universal Gyms then Nautilus came in and we thought that was so awesome.

These students are so spoiled now. Reality will hit hard when they have to pay for stuff (or go into huge debt) in the real world.

 

[JRHEETER]

With it being Parents Weekend they were letting anyone come in. Truly amazing facility...a long way from my era. SU had to do something like this to compete.

Early 1980s: Universal Gyms then Nautilus came in and we thought that was so awesome.

These students are so spoiled now. Reality will hit hard when they have to pay for stuff (or go into huge debt) in the real world.

My brother designed the climbing wall and helped with design on the E-sports lab!

Pretty cool place!

 

[TexanMark]

My brother designed the climbing wall and helped with design on the E-sports lab!

Pretty cool place!

Yeah the e-sports room was insane. Total nerd city lol

 

[JSOrange97]

With it being Parents Weekend they were letting anyone come in. Truly amazing facility...a long way from my era. SU had to do something like this to compete.

Early 1980s: Universal Gyms then Nautilus came in and we thought that was so awesome.

These students are so spoiled now. Reality will hit hard when they have to pay for stuff (or go into huge debt) in the real world.

Did you look up while in the hallways?

The old gym floor was repurposed as “ceiling tiles”. As someone who played a lot of pickup games in that gym I thought it was a cool touch.

Got a tour a few weeks ago and the whole place is amazing.

 

[TexanMark]

Amazing how fast it came together from May to September.

Well done by the everyone involved

 

[samspann1]

where on campus is the Barnes Center?

 

[TexanMark]

where on campus is the Barnes Center?

Old Archbold Gym on east side of Dome

 

[Forza Azzurri]

With it being Parents Weekend they were letting anyone come in. Truly amazing facility...a long way from my era. SU had to do something like this to compete.

Early 1980s: Universal Gyms then Nautilus came in and we thought that was so awesome.

These students are so spoiled now. Reality will hit hard when they have to pay for stuff (or go into huge debt) in the real world.

We were up on campus this weekend for an event. Stopped by the Barnes center on Sunday. Awesome. Loved the block S on the plates and dumbbells. Esports room was top notch.

I worked out in Archbold as a freshman. There was one room with a bunch of universal machines. That was it. No free weights. No dumbbells. No treadmills. No nada. We used to break into the Crew workout room just to get access to some other equipment.

SU really needed this. The arms race is not just occurring with sports, it is also occurring with the general student population. When we were visiting colleges with my daughter, some of the schools had unbelievable recreation facilities. South Carolina had a rec facility that could have been a vacation resort.

Next step is to upgrade the dorms. Dorms were like luxury apartments at some of the schools we visited.

Students are spoiled but they also work extremely hard. My daughter did more work last year as a frosh than I did in my four years on the hill. I cannot speak for the other schools but Newhouse is worth every penny that I am spending. Facilities, faculty, career services are all second to none. I think my daughter will have a huge advantage with that school on her resume versus having gone someplace else.

 

[TexanMark]

It is funny, as I walked to FSU's stadium this weekend from the tailgate: the apartment complexes probably built just 10-15 years ago look dated and basic compared the newest ones the last few years. Happening all over campuses around the country.

 

[upperdeck]

at the same time everyone complains about rising cost of college.

 

[FloridaFan]

It is funny, as I walked to FSU's stadium this weekend from the tailgate: the apartment complexes probably built just 10-15 years ago look dated and basic compared the newest ones the last few years. Happening all over campuses around the country.

The bar and restraunt scene was top notch though. Does the area around SU have stuff similar?

 

[TexanMark]

The bar and restraunt scene was top notch though. Does the area around SU have stuff similar?

Yes they are building quite a few luxury apartments near the campus. Most just in the last few years

 

[All4SU]

I did some sit-ups outside of Bird Library late one night back in the day when I was a student. (Okay I wasn’t really trying to do sit-ups. Beer was involved. It wasn’t pretty. I’m not proud of it.) That’s as close as I ever came to working out on campus.

 

[Forza Azzurri]

Yes they are building quite a few luxury apartments near the campus. Most just in the last few years

If they ever actually dismantle 81, I fully expect the university and downtown to bleed into each other...apartments, shopping, restaurants etc...the university has been expanding to the north but I would expect that to potentially pivot towards the west..it would only make sense for downtown businesses to expand east so as to capture business from both the downtown professional and university communities...

 

[FrancoPizza]

If they ever actually dismantle 81, I fully expect the university and downtown to bleed into each other...apartments, shopping, restaurants etc...the university has been expanding to the north but I would expect that to potentially pivot towards the west..it would only make sense for downtown businesses to expand east so as to capture business from both the downtown professional and university communities...

That won't happen unless they dismantle the public housing barracks that are currently sitting between the campus and downtown. Walsh and Cuomo have plans to build mixed living communities so students, professors and Pioneer Homes residents all share the same neighborhood. That should sell out fast.

 

[Eric15]

Students are spoiled but they also work extremely hard.

Based on what college costs today, I would argue students aren’t spoiled nearly enough.

 

[Forza Azzurri]

That won't happen unless they dismantle the public housing barracks that are currently sitting between the campus and downtown. Walsh and Cuomo have plans to build mixed living communities so students, professors and Pioneer Homes residents all share the same neighborhood. That should sell out fast.

Public housing is to the south of East Adams. University area already effectively extends north to East Genesee street, well north of East Adams and directly west of downtown.

Public housing is hardly a barrier, geographically, to the union of the university and downtown.

And how about a really novel idea, instead of killing a vibrant minority community by building a highway through the middle of it, how about giving that same minority community economic opportunity by dismantling the primary barrier to that opportunity.

Thirty years ago, 96th street in Manhattan was the DMZ. Today, Harlem is an incredibly vibrant economic area of NYC, with a mixed population...

When I attended Nottingham back in the 80s, it was 1/3rd white, 1/3rd black and 1/3rd everything else...Have to think it is the same today...think about SYRACUSE (ie.a fused downtown/university) with Ethiopian, Libyan, Turkish, Lebanese, Pakistani, Vietnamese restaurants...

We don't have a river for a river walk but I could see a San Antonio type concept with bike trail, jogging/walking trail...

What is nice is that downtown and the university are in a relatively condensed geographical area. Easy to link them up.

 

[DownTheField]

That won't happen unless they dismantle the public housing barracks that are currently sitting between the campus and downtown. Walsh and Cuomo have plans to build mixed living communities so students, professors and Pioneer Homes residents all share the same neighborhood. That should sell out fast.

You’re obsessed with that housing project