City’s plans to cover mall
move ahead, official says
By Marian Groan
Of fht Emmrnld
Plans are inching forward on a cover for the
Eugene Downtown Mall as three local architec
tural firms recently were chosen to submit initial
designs, says a city official
Early this year, a review team composed of an
architect, a city building official and members
from the Downtown Development Board, the
Eugene Renewal Agency and the Eugene Down
town Association, considered 13 proposals and
gave the architecture firms of Lutes/Sanetel,
Unthank Seder Poticha and Herbert & Keller the
highest rankings
Criteria used to judge the proposals included
professional history, qualifications to handle a
project of this size and their design approach,
said city redevelopment specialist Jessie Smith.
All three of the finalists previously have been
involved in downtown projects, Smith says
Lutes/Sanetel is credited with the design and
construction of the Parcade parking structure
and shops
Unthank Seder Poticha helped restore the
Smeede Hotel and designed the Lane County
Public Services complex
Herbert & Keller designed the South Park
building and coordinated the 1978 pedestrian
cover workshop
The review team will interview the firms in
March and then will make a final recommendation
to the Downtown Development Board, says Smith,
Smith says the city is seeking only initial
phase designs because it has reached no design
conception decisions on how much of the mall
should be covered
Past design conceptions were rejected as
“loggerheads” because “no one was certain
what we wanted,” says Smith
Those ideas ranged from awnings to a
“gigantic bubble” covering the entire mall, he
says The latter was rejected "partly because of
cost and partly because of aesthetics.”
Construction tentatively is scheduled to
begin this summer on the first phase, with the
design costs of $15,000 funded by the downtown
board, Smith says
The city is looking for additional funding
sources Smith says one funding possibility that
won’t be overlooked is the group of downtown
merchants.
Also, the city may receive $20,000 to 30,000
more from the downtown board, he says
When completed, the initial phase will be
evaluated, and needed changes incorporated, he
says
"Hopefully, we ll hit what people wanted, and
it will be the impetus to go to stage two,” Smith
says
Kids’ books topic of workshop
Aspiring young writers and
illustrators selected from Lane
County s 4th, 5th, and 6th grade
classes will gather in the EMU
Ballroom next Wednesday for
the second Young Authors'
Conference
The event, sponsored by the
University's College of Educa
tion, will bring together children
who have written stories, creat
ed illustrations and helped to
Museum opens to public
A public open house to unveil three new displays and
inaugurate a major fund-raising campaign is scheduled
Sunday at the University's natural history museum
The free event will run from 2 to 4 p m and will include
demonstrations on how to clean stuffed birds and make
flaked stone tools.
According to Richard Pettigrew, an anthropology re
search associate and the event's coordinator, the museum
will be closed this June unless sufficient funding is received to
keep it open and functioning
Except for $10.000 to maintain and protect the collection,
all funding for the museum's exhibits and educational pro
grams is being cut next year, he said
"The open house is intended to show that the museum is
an institution that the people of Oregon need and should
support," Pettigrew says Additional fund-raising events will
be announced at the open house
The museum is located at 1264 Franklin Blvd in the
University science complex, off the Science Library court
yard
For additional information, contact the natural history
museum at 686-3024 or call Pettigrew at 686-5130.
bind them into book form as part
of school projects Each school
will choose a number of these
children to meet at the Univer
sity for the conference
One of the conference
speakers will be Caroline Feller
Bauer, an author of children's
books and a book illustrator.
She will share her experiences
and techniques with the
students and teachers in the
first phase of the conference
317 letters
written so far
By Wednesday, the financial
aid letter-writing campaign had
chalked up 317 letters toward its
800 letter goal
Dave Berns, ASUO legislative
coordinator, says ASUO and
SUAB volunteers will staff addi
tional tables today across the
street from the University Book
store and in the Hamilton dor
mitory cafeteria A table also will
be available in front of the
University Library Friday, he
says.
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