(11-14-2020 01:21 AM)army56mike Wrote:  Just got word today from a rep from the Army Corp of Engineers that the Camp Hydaway Lake expansion project is still on track. The environmental assessment must be completed and there should be no issues with that. The permit decision should be made soon.

Do you think they’ll still call it Camp Hydaway Lake or will they change the name to Liberty Lake to capitalize on all the marketing value it will have?

I think they should go with Lake Liberty (Liberty Lake). They can change the name of that pond on campus.

Although a month plus late, this is good to know. What's good is that area will eventually have good reception lol. One thing that has been out of the public eye is the school of engineering. I wonder if they'll start that along with the new cafeteria. I notice that LU liked to start 2-3 projects around time so it could make sense. There may be another project that could possibly start (not including camp Hydaway lake). Maybe the indoor softball facility? To answer your question, I'm not sure of they'd change the name since it would make the locals feel more comfortable to visit. The locals have not been very supportive of the school but that has been getting better. Hope to hear more about the progress along with the airport expansion(s) for the school of aeronautics.

Don't forget that there's still more projects to be done from Liberty's master plan:

https://issuu.com/vmdoarchitects/docs/li...aster_plan

Liberty has room to expand for residents and academic buildings. There's an idea to remove and expand residential and academic buildings on Candlers Mountain shopping center, plus more residential dorms along the road passing the indoor track facility and lead to Odd Fellowship road(another construction map has hospitality and other commercial details around that area). Then we still have land that are just parking spaces but could easily be transitioned into necessary space. Finally, we still have the graduate campus. That discussion has died down, but they were still moving dirt from other projects up the mountain near the possible campus location. School of Medicine has a few graduating class, so there might be more medical facilities coming in a few years (3-5). These are just speculations, but there's already some proposed projects that are now established (ex: arena, Williams stadium expansion, new cafeteria[soon], school of engineering[soon]).