The football facility breaks ground tomorrow. The Sands Corp just donated $1 million dollars to it. This is good news!!
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Better late than never....now get 'er done!The football facility breaks ground tomorrow. The Sands Corp just donated $1 million dollars to it. This is good news!!
Is there going to be a live feed during construction like when The Mendenhall Center was built or the Raiders stadium?
http://www.raiders.com/lasvegas/live-stadium-camera.html
That's just great. Is there anything else that the admin can do to hurt recruiting right now? Maybe announce another delay in the facilities and the stadium before February.No real work yet. Should be 30 days or so.
Thank you Reagan, all the prep work has to begin, before the building goes up, it's happening, Complex should be up early next year.
That's simply not true, particularly when the facility was set to begin construction over a year ago, all the soil testing, permits and easements were granted over a year ago and all of the utilities were marked, mapped and scheduled for shut off and rerouting over a year ago. We are not doing the excavation, utility rerouting and footing work right now because the admin has been dilatory, at best, in funding and setting up the bonds and loans for construction to go forward.Have none of you worked construction before....on government property? This is how EVERY project starts.....
I'm sorry if I came off too strong and condescending. Please accept my humble apology. I'm just so pissed off at this that I ....I really need to just settle down.Then you would know.
Yeah baby! You go Sam!That's simply not true, particularly when the facility was set to begin construction over a year ago, all the soil testing, permits and easements were granted over a year ago and all of the utilities were marked, mapped and scheduled for shut off and rerouting over a year ago. We are not doing the excavation, utility rerouting and footing work right now because the admin has been dilatory, at best, in funding and setting up the bonds and loans for construction to go forward.
And, yes, I come from a heavy construction family. I worked my way through high school, undergrad and law school in heavy construction, mostly including government property. For the last 30 years I've worked for large commercial contractors, been an arbitrator on over two hundred contract delay claims, served as a mediator on over a hundred construction delay claims in Southern Nevada, including 5 different buildings on the UNLV campus and I have served as a Special Master on over 50 large scale construction defect cases in Southern Nevada.
I strongly agree with you. Sheldon caused a delay of a year with his antics but all of the remaining sequencing between the professionals has gone on at an admirable rate.As to the Stadium, Sam will agree with me that I have never seen a billion dollar project come together so quickly. I really don't know how many people can really appreciate the timeline involved , feom land sale to groundbreaking. The speed of he Army Corps of Engineers approval for flood control viaduct relocation was mind boggling. They definitely had their ducks in a row.
They were resubmitted and approved again 5 months ago.Sam - if all of the permits were approved over a year ago, then they would have been forced to go back and begin the submittal process all over again because geotech, civil, structural, etc have a shelf life of one year if construction has not started. This likely required them to go back and re-submit the plans for review and revised County and utility signatures. I will just be happy once they actually break ground with the site grading and utility work.
I actually meant “then you would know what a nightmare it is.”I'm sorry if I came off too strong and condescending. Please accept my humble apology. I'm just so pissed off at this that I ....I really need to just settle down.
I don't know if we can count on that. They needed to get going this month at 100 mph or they will expire. Appears more and more like our AD's ego is more about her and that she wants football to fail. I hope I'm wrong but the evidence just keeps building up.At least they will not have another delay due to not starting construction before the permits run out again.
I don't know if we can count on that. They needed to get going this month at 100 mph or they will expire. Appears more and more like our AD's ego is more about her and that she wants football to fail. I hope I'm wrong but the evidence just keeps building up.
What makes you even say that? She was brought into UNLV with an expertise in running college football programs. So far I see her doing a lot of positive things for all of UNLV Athletics. What do you see her doing that makes you think she wants UNLV FB to fail.I don't know if we can count on that. They needed to get going this month at 100 mph or they will expire. Appears more and more like our AD's ego is more about her and that she wants football to fail. I hope I'm wrong but the evidence just keeps building up.
I don't know if we can count on that. They needed to get going this month at 100 mph or they will expire. Appears more and more like our AD's ego is more about her and that she wants football to fail. I hope I'm wrong but the evidence just keeps building up.
By how slow she is with everything, by how cheap we had to be in the new hires and by how little we hear from her in support of the team. Once again, I hope I'm wrong but the feeling is very strong.I hope your wrong but, is there any evidence to support your comments about the AD ?
This is true. Need to get digging though.You do not need to finish the construction, you only need to start construction when it comes to most of the permits..
That was the reasoning given to us but she really doesn't have the resume to support it. She went to VT when it was already in good shape and had been for decades. I honestly hope that my feelings are wrong but I've been through this dance several times before with new ADs taking over. We'll see.She was brought into UNLV with an expertise in running college football programs.... .
Oh I'm going to be patient. Just saying how strange and slow things have gone for a new AD. We can only sit back and watchI do not see that. Let's at least take a wait and see posture...
At least she has a resume. TKM had no resume and just used her past as an athlete at UNLV, and a long term job running a minor bowl game that was handed to her to leverage a job she didn't deserve.