SYRACUSE — Crews are beginning work to demolish the Hoople Special Education Building at 805 South Crouse Ave. on the Syracuse University campus. The university is demolishing the Hoople Building to create space for construction of the upcoming National Veterans Resource Complex (NVRC). To facilitate the demolition work, the parking lot at the corner of […]
SYRACUSE — Crews are beginning work to demolish the Hoople Special Education Building at 805 South Crouse Ave. on the Syracuse University campus.
The university is demolishing the Hoople Building to create space for construction of the upcoming National Veterans Resource Complex (NVRC).
To facilitate the demolition work, the parking lot at the corner of Marshall Street and South Crouse Avenue was closed to the public beginning Aug. 29, the City of Syracuse and Syracuse University said in a news release.
Crews will temporarily use the lot for heavy equipment as part of the demolition. Both the school and the city expect crews to finish the work by January.
Syracuse owns the lot and leases it to the City of Syracuse for public parking close to the shops and restaurants along Marshall Street.
The City suggests that drivers use the paid lot located between First Niagara Bank and University College along East Adams Street. Metered street parking in the area will also remain available.
About the Hoople Building
Opened in 1953, the Hoople Building is named for Gordon Hoople, who graduated from Syracuse University in 1915 and its College of Medicine in 1919, according to its page on the Syracuse University Archives website.
Hoople served as a professor of otolaryngology at Syracuse’s School of Medicine and at, what is now, Upstate Medical University.
He also established the school’s Student Health Services in 1923 and served as chair of the school’s board of trustees from 1967 to 1971, according to the website.
About the NVRC
The NVRC, which is tentatively scheduled for completion in the spring of 2019, will offer vocational and educational programs designed to advance the economic success of the region’s and the nation’s veterans and military families, according to Syracuse University.
The NVRC is a “key pillar” of the Central New York regional economic-development council’s winning proposal entitled “Central New York: Rising from the Ground Up,” the school contends.
The complex will serve as the permanent home of the university’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), which has served more than 48,000 veterans and military families.
The NVRC will house the Syracuse University and Regional Student Veteran Resource Center; the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps; the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs “Vet-Success on Campus”; the National Center of Excellence for Veteran Business Ownership; Veteran Business Outreach Center and Accelerator; and Syracuse University’s Office of Veteran and Military Affairs, according to the school.
Syracuse University in June picked New York City–based SHoP Architects to “conceptualize” and design the new NVRC. The selection completed a six-month design competition.
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