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LSU $12 M student athlete nutrition center to break ground in April
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:08 am
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:08 am
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LSU’s athletes soon will dine in a new $12 million nutrition center — and learn how to cook, too. The school plans to build a 22,500-square-foot, athletes-only dining hall on the site of the old Alex Box Stadium, a state-of-the-art complex dubbed the Tiger Athletics Nutrition Center.
Approved in October, the building will be privately funded and is set for construction some time before April 2015, with a completion date set for April 1, 2016. The LSU Board of Supervisors is expected to approve designs of the facility in its meeting next Friday.
“For us, it’s an opportunity to have areas for student-athletes to relax and eat,” LSU senior associate athletic director Eddie Nunez said. The nutrition center will include a large dining room, kitchen, lounge area and a “fueling station” open extended hours, according to renderings.
A concrete plaza encircles the building, which adheres to the campus’ Spanish-style architecture. Renderings show a facility with a Spanish tile roof and archways across its front.
There is seating in an outdoor plaza area that’s marked with trees. “I’m very excited,” LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri said Friday. “It’s going to be a huge boom for our program as well as all of the other programs on campus.”
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The facility will serve all LSU athletes. Athletes currently eat in student dining halls. Most Southeastern Conference teams have athlete-only dining halls or are in the process of building athlete-only dining halls, Nunez said. “We looked at ourselves and saw what we can do to give ourselves the best opportunity for us to be successful,” Nunez said.
“We have to look and say, ‘What’s the most important thing here?’ The student-athletes.” “You used to consider things like that lagniappe but not anymore,” Mainieri said. “You’ve got to stay up there with everybody else in the things you can provide to student-athletes. This is something long overdue.”
The nutrition center will be located between Nicholson Drive and the train tracks, along Skip Bertman Drive. It will be the first piece in what Nunez calls the “Nicholson Corridor,” an area of planned development on and around the site of old Alex Box. Despite the renderings, LSU remains in the design phase for the center, Nunez said. Designs and renderings could change. Over the last year, the Tiger Athletic Foundation raised about $10 million of the $12 millions needed for the center, said Rick Perry, president and CEO of TAF. The school has been discussing the facility for more than a year, Nunez said.
LSU considered several sites throughout campus before selecting a 1.7-acre piece of land that used to be the location of the old Alex Box Stadium’s grandstands. “It really suits us well,” Nunez said. “It’s in a good proximity, centralized to all our facilities.” Nunez described LSU football coach Les Miles as one of the strongest proponents and advocates for the center. “He’s been integral and gets everybody to understand how important this is for student- athletes,” Nunez said.
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Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:10 am to GeorgeReymond
The BBQ will be good.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:11 am to GeorgeReymond
So now there's going to be even less parking after they take away the old Alex Box parking lot?
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:13 am to GeorgeReymond
Great for the expansion in facilities.... But pretty ugly
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:14 am to 03GeeTee
Yeah? Their intention was to always take away that parking lot. For God's sake, it's gravel, you thought it'd be permanent?
I do believe they plan on adding another parking garage though
I do believe they plan on adding another parking garage though
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:14 am to GeorgeReymond
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The nutrition center will be located between Nicholson Drive and the train tracks, along Skip Bertman Drive. It will be the first piece in what Nunez calls the “Nicholson Corridor,” an area of planned development on and around the site of old Alex Box. Despite the renderings, LSU remains in the design phase for the center, Nunez said.
i'm really glad this was mentioned, as the Nicholson project hasn't been discussed openly in awhile.
I like the renderings a lot
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:16 am to 03GeeTee
Unless you have a RV, it shouldn't matter to you.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:18 am to GeorgeReymond
I bet the fried chicken is second to none.
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:21 am to tigerbait2010
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i'm really glad this was mentioned, as the Nicholson project hasn't been discussed openly in awhile.
Same here
Have you seen the LSU Foundation renderings? It's suppose to be in the same area and should pop up soon IIRC
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:22 am to GeorgeReymond
Looks and sounds awesome
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:25 am to GeorgeReymond
Wow, that rendering looks fantastic. If the rest of the Nicholson layout looks like the two renderings above, LSU is about to have one hell of a layout in the near future (not that it isn't impressive now)
where'd you find that rendering?
where'd you find that rendering?
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:32 am to tigerbait2010
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:40 am to GeorgeReymond
Good stuff
I noticed that consulting firm had an impressive portfolio. if you're advising UT on a new facility for Mccombs, you know what you're doing. Glad they're thinking this through to avoid fricking up the Nicholson project
I noticed that consulting firm had an impressive portfolio. if you're advising UT on a new facility for Mccombs, you know what you're doing. Glad they're thinking this through to avoid fricking up the Nicholson project
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:41 am to GeorgeReymond
dp
This post was edited on 12/6/14 at 10:44 am
Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:58 am to GeorgeReymond
That's a long arse walk for some athletes
Posted on 12/6/14 at 11:05 am to Bottom9
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That's a long arse walk for some athletes
Well, the original plans were to put the dining facility in the football operations center, which understandably made for a very dicey situation
Posted on 12/6/14 at 11:16 am to tigerbait2010
I saw that too, the firm had an impressive portfolio.
We can't afford to frick this up. I'm ready for all the retail,etc to get started
We can't afford to frick this up. I'm ready for all the retail,etc to get started
Posted on 12/6/14 at 11:16 am to GeorgeReymond
they too good to eat at the 5? I ate lunch with JJ and some of the linemen a couple times a week in fall of 11
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