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February
1 ,
2006
DH 06 RH04
Contact: Russ Hudson,
Media Relations Coordinator
(310) 243-2455/2001
rhudson@csudh.edu
Home Depot Center Expansion Gets CSU
Trustees’ OK
Could
mean $450,000 a year for campus; Track lights also approved
Carson, CA— Two
important hurdles were cleared today when the California
State University (CSU) Board of Trustees gave final approval
to two lingering issues on the California State University,
Dominguez Hills campus, one of which could generate annual
revenues of $450,000 for CSUDH.
In May, 2005, contingencies were placed on the final Supplemental
Environmental Impact Report for the Phase 2 expansion of
the Home Depot Center (HDC), contingencies that the CSU Chancellor’s
Office was to monitor. Chancellor Charles Reed on Tuesday,
Jan. 31, declared that the requirements had been met, clearing
the way for the trustees to give final approval today for
the $55 million building program that includes a 60,000-square-foot
athletics training center and office complex, a 50,000-square-foot
field house and training center, a 240-bed athletic residential
facility, and a 200-room hotel.
The HDC owner, Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), which
also owns the Staples Center in Los Angeles, will pay for
all of the Phase 2 expansion. It is estimated that when the
expansion is complete it will generate at least $450,000
a year for the campus. Next, campus and AEG officials will
sit down and finalize documents and the timing of construction.
The contingencies included that the chancellor make a determination
that there are no outstanding material issues of noncompliance
in any agreements between the university and AEG and the
nearby University Heights community; a written agreement
by AEG that includes reference to CSU Dominguez Hills in
all AEG media releases, announcements and broadcasts of events
at the Home Depot Center, and a further commitment by AEG
to acquire that same agreement from all third-party users
of the facility; and a determination by the chancellor that
the revenue resulting from the second phase of HDC is equivalent
to comparable market rates.
Also approved today by the trustees was the final Supplemental
Environmental Impact Report concerning the permanent lights
at the track-and-field site. The Trustees’ Committee
on Campus Planning, Buildings and Grounds voted its final
approval Tuesday, Jan. 31, for the lights, then turned
it over to the trustees, who approved it today. The lights
originally were to be installed by AEG as temporary lighting,
but instead were installed as permanent lighting. Since then,
AEG has planted landscaping, put screening on the backs of
bleachers, and angled the lighting more sharply downward.
A fund is now being set up to pay for curtains and blinds
for any nearby residents still affected by the lights who
want them.
The university is now authorized to use the lights as early
as tonight. However, at this time there are no nighttime
events scheduled at the field for the month of February.
California State University, Dominguez Hills
University Communications & Public Affairs
Welch Hall, B-363
1000 E. Victoria St.
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