PSU Magazine Fall 1998

INFORMATION (ENTER Tri-Met and PSU will jointly operate an information center on the ground floor of the Urban Center Building. It will be a convenient source for Tri– Met passes, PSU parking permits, information, tickets to PSU events, and possibly, tickets for regional arts, cultural, and sporting events. ... and a whole lot more for Portland State and the surrounding neighborhood ILLUSTRATION BY THOMAS HACKER AND ASSOCIATES, PRIMARY ARCHITECT AND CONSULTANT FOR THE PROJECT RETAIL SPACE The Urban Center Building includes ground floor retail space for businesses interested in the south downtown neighborhood. The anchor tenant will be the PSU Bookstore. UNIVERSITY PLAZA The work of Irish-born sculptor John Aiken was selected for public art in the plaza, which will serve as a gather– ing place for the University and down– town neighborhood. Aiken's granite monoliths will "cast" elliptical granite FUNDING shadows ranging from 10-by-20 feet to 20-by- 40-feet wide, flush with the plaza's surface. One of the shadows will overlay a light-rail line. The plaza is the southern terminus of Tri-Met's bus mall and a station for the proposed north-south light rail. Meyer Memorial Trust Keren Brown Wilson PhD '83 and Michael DeShane MSW '72, PhD '77 Clark Foundation Hundreds of individual donors Portland Development Commission City of Portland Tri-Met Oregon Department of Energy Federal Transit Administration U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration Oregon State Emergency Fund Oregon State General Obligation Bonds View the construction site in real time on the World Wide Web. Start at PSU's home page, www.pdx .edu, go to Campus Information and then click on Urban Center Construction Zone. A video camera atop the School of Business Administration is recording the construction around the clock. FALL 1998 PSU MAGAZINE 11