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Student input solicited for NMU’s project

Northern Michigan University, and an engineering firm in its employ, are taking well-advised steps to determine what students might want in a renovated university center.

NMU has committed to spending $17.5 million to complete all phases of the renovation of the Don. H. Bottum University Center. Getting good ideas on what students are looking for is layered into that phase. Several student feedback sessions have been held.

“We are really excited about the possibilities,” Kathy Richards, associate vice president of Engineering and Planning and Facilities at NMU, said for a Mining Journal story on the project. “That’s why we are asking the students here today, to make sure that if we build it, they will come.”

Generally, the new, modern design is expected to create more open spaces, theoretically making it easier for students to navigate and use.

Chalk all of this up to solid planning and development. NMU and its engineering firm seem to be going about this substantial redevelopment project in the right way.

Mining Journal (Marquette)

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