Anyone who’s walked to the Zü in the past few days (so … Zü residents, mostly) has noticed the next two “Capital Projects” underway.  I was saddened (yes, I’m an environmental studies major) to see all the trees around what I guess is called Scott house taken down a few days ago, leaving just a big ol’ pile of woodchips.

I just happened upon the school website that explains it.  They’re consolidating the Advancement Offices, with what will be more than 25,000 square feet of office space.  Which seems like a lot - right?

Here are the details:

The fences are definitely up at both sites.  There was, last I saw, no work begun yet at Ponty-Poole (where does that name come from, anyway?) other than a porta-potty on site.  See the Amherst explanation for more details.