State Approves $150-Million CSUN North Campus Expansion Plan
As expected, state officials have given final approval to a $150-million plan to expand the North Campus of California State University, Northridge.
“It means that we’re going ahead,” Elliot Mininberg, CSUN vice president for administration, said of the decision by the state General Services and Finance departments and Gov. George Deukmejian’s office.
In conjunction with a private developer, Watt Investment Properties, the university plans to build more than a dozen projects on the 100-acre site, including a 200-room hotel, an athletic stadium, restaurants and student dormitories.
Profits from the commercial parts of the project will underwrite the university facilities.
Construction of the project’s first phase, student housing, is to begin in September and is expected to be completed in the fall of 1988, university spokeswoman Judith Elias said.
The entire project is expected to be completed in 10 to 15 years, she said.
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