Marquette University kicked off Finals Week on campus by announcing that they will soon break ground on the long planned Athletic Performance Research Center (APRC) on campus.
However, it will not be the APRC that was originally announced nearly three years ago. Instead of the planned fieldhouse style facility south of Straz Tower that university president Dr. Michael Lovell described at his state of the university address in January of 2015, the APRC will be smaller and located directly across the street from the Al McGuire Center on 12th Street. This is the space currently occupied by the surface parking lot just north of Zilber Hall, and while the lot is next to Schroeder Field, the artist’s rendering as seen above seems to indicate that the grassy space will remain untouched by the construction.