Have you been by the Café Lately? Notice any changes? It might be annoying seeing all the seating get taken away, but when all is said and done, it will be worth it. They are working on phase one of two for the Kumm Center Student Union. When asking students in my marketing classes what they thought of the remodel, the common consensus was, “What is it?” Well… let me tell you! Right now, where that big white box is, will be the new book store and student life. This is the phase one. This portion should be completed by Fall of 2010. Phase two is supposed to be finished by Fall of 2011. This portion includes several things. This is the meat and potatoes of the whole project. Where the current seating of the café is, there will be a new multi-function seating section. This is running right off of the food court. (Mostly where the food court is now, only better!) Then, there will be main seating that will have a door out to the Cleary courtyard. (Located roughly where the bookstore is now.) This portion will also have the Bistro on the end (the opposite side of where it is now). Then, the culinary is going to be moved upstairs. Right now they are in the basement and working with limited resources. They will be adding a lot of what should be necessities already when learning how culinary. They will have new proper venting and gas. Right now they are cooking on electric heat, not the most practical. When asking Deb Klug, the Foods Program Head and Instructor of the Food Production Specialist and Culinary Management Programs, she says, “It is exciting seeing things begin to materialize after looking at blueprints and renderings. The new foods lab will be state of the art and should enable us to grow our department and enhance the present curriculum with the technological advances in the food service industry.”
I hope that helps everyone better understand what your Kumm Center will soon look like. If there is anything else you would like to know, I will do my best as to letting you know. Any input would be great!
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That sounds like great plans! Do they have any pictures or visuals as to what it will look like? Maybe something like a poster outside the remodel would help us all see what changes will be coming…