We just received an e-mail from a young Friend, directing our attention to a story in the CSUF Daily Titan about the university trying to go ahead with the acquisition of the Hope University campus across Nutwood Avenue. We’ve been documenting the damage already done to mid-century architecture in the area and of course noting that the buildings on the Hope campus are architecturally significant – and would be demolished by CSUF.
According to the article funding would come from the sale of bonds. $30 million will be needed to close the deal. But of course the university employee cited says nothing about how the bonds are to be paid for. It seems that the school’s debt service ratio is already crappy – they’ve been spending like drunken sailors over there and their credit card is maxed out. Can anybody forget the debacle of the “University Heights” housing fiasco, here, and here? That didn’t help, either.
Read the rest of “CSUF Going Way Out On Limb”
The architecture is garish, smacks of an old VanDeKamps restaurant (minus the windmill) and the community would be much better off without it. As I remember it, originally it was the CSUF bookstore. There are a lot of worthy causes out there, this is not one of them. Your attempt to classify this approx. 50 year old structure as some monument to posterity is laughable. (And, I fully expect a response that attacks me as a diversionary tactic – all too predictable)