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Campus Buildings Directory
Office of University Communications  :  University Relations

New Construction

Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center Addition

1740 Watkins Center Drive 66045-7507

In spring 2007, an addition of approximately 45,000 square feet was begun on the north side of the center. It will include four multipurpose gymnasium courts, additional free-weight space, racquetball courts, a martial-arts studio and an indoor virtual golf simulator. The elevated track will be extended around all eight courts, making it nearly one-quarter mile in length. The total cost will be $6.3 million.

Anderson Family Football Complex

Memorial Stadium

On Feb. 5, 2006, athletic department and university officials announced that funding had been secured for a $31 million football complex to be built adjacent to Memorial Stadium. HNTB Architecture of Kansas City, Mo., will is overseeing plans for the $31 million football complex to be built south of Memorial Stadium. It is to include academic areas; locker rooms; facilities for weight and cardio training, hydrotherapy, audio-visual screenings and nutrition; practice fields; and new parking lots. Groundbreaking was held Oct. 6, 2006, and completion is expected by July 2008. Among the major donors are Dana and Sue Anderson, their son, Justin, and his wife, Jean, in whose honor the complex will be named; Tom and Julie Kivisto, for whom the stadium field has been named; Charles and Sharon Lynch Kimbell; Frank Sabatini and family; and Ken Wagnon; an anonymous interest-free loan of $6.5 million also was made. Athletic director Lew Perkins pledged that the view from Memorial Stadium up the Hill to Memorial Campanile would not be obstructed.

Floyd H. and Kathryn Krehbiel Scholarship Hall

13th and Ohio streets

(Pronounced KRAY-bel)

Alumnus Carl Krehbiel of Moundridge, Kan., has given $4 million to KU Endowment to fund a men’s scholarship hall in honor of his parents, Kathyrn Krehbiel and the late Floyd H. Krehbiel, also KU alumni. The 18,000-square-foot hall, for 50 students, will be built immediately north of Dennis E. Rieger Scholarship Hall and will be a mirror image of its design by Treanor Architects of Lawrence, which incorporates characteristics of the Queen Anne style common in the surrounding Oread neighborhood. Construction should begin in spring 2007 and be completed by fall 2008.