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It was another sweltering day in Phoenix, and Tommy Espinoza, an Arizona native and president and CEO of Raza Development Fund, knew something was different. He was right. While Arizona’s summers have always been hot, August 2020 was the hottest month ever recorded in Phoenix, and the city’s temperatures topped 110 degrees for more than 50 days in 2020.
“[T]here are times when they close the airports and ask people not to go out. We have offices downtown, and I’ve crossed the street when the black tar moves beneath you since it’s 119–20 degrees. You cannot ignore this anymore. I was not a big climate change believer but now you’ve got to say, wait a minute, you really cannot ignore this,” Espinoza said.
Duplantis Design Group to design Coastal Center February 9, 2021, by Eldin Ganic
The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and Nicholls State University have announced that Duplantis Design Group has been hired to design the Coastal Center.
This announcement officially sets in motion the facility formation phase of the $14.5 million project.
Announced in 2019 by Gov. John Bel Edwards, the planned 33,000-square foot building should go out to bid by the end of the year with construction following the bid process.
A planning and programming effort was completed in 2020 to help determine the location and conceptual design of the facility.
The building will be located on the Nicholls campus at the corner of Acadia Drive and Ordoyne Drive, across from Calecas Hall.