Maintenance and Life-safety Upgrades Stalled by Arizona Board of Regents
October 2024
As we have been reporting, our North Building was closed to the public on August 1, 2024 so that it could undergo extensive maintenance and life-safety upgrades. The closure came after more than a year of planning with UA facilities managers, risk management officials, and the UA fire marshal. In that time, museum personnel had engaged in moving collections out of harm’s way and relocating staff to safer work areas. Exhibits were deinstalled and galleries were converted into alternative collections storage spaces.
Maintenance work began in August and continued in September, but it came to a halt after the Fall 2024 meetings of the Arizona Board of Regents, at which they pulled funding and tabled the issue without any indication of when or if discussions would resume.
ABOR next meets on February 13 and 14, 2025 in Tempe.
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Deferred Maintenance and Life-Safety Upgrades
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Contractors begin deinstalling the window glass in Room 311A, from the outside.
