The Main event
RANDY
MAIN (right), vice president and chief financial officer, takes
a turn at the controls of a "trac-hoe" last Friday
to ceremonially begin the demolition of the Van de Kamp (Entros)
building on the eastern end of the block bordered by Yale, Valley,
Minor and Aloha streets. The razing will take three more weeks,
after which workers will begin excavation and shoring for construction
of an underground parking structure for a new, six-floor Center
administration building that will rise on the site during 2001.
The steel-frame and brick-panel building, dubbed Phase IV-A of
the Day Campus development, will encompass 128,000 square feet
and initially house about 200 administrative staff who now work
in the Yale, Minor, Aloha and Valley buildings. Planners estimate
that staff will move into the building in February 2002. Vacation
of the Yale Building will allow construction of the new Public
Health Sciences Division building (Phase IV-B) on the Yale site.
After the move into the new administration building, the Minor,
Aloha and Valley buildings will be leased to other parties. -Photo
by Michelle Hruby