Pragmatism alters USFP’s building location

What is the necessity of a building? This is a difficult question to many but the majority of them will answer that its greatest obligation is to provide housing. Well, it’s accepted. But this is not all. A building happens to be the emblem of vanity of an institution as well. If you go to the history, you will find that the ancient buildings like amphitheater, Parthenon used to depict the vanity of the empire. However, the presentation must be precise or it will fail to earn the expected appreciation. The same thing is happening with the University of South Florida and on account of that this esteemed institution has been censured severely.

The one and foremost problem is with the first building on the new University of South Florida Polytechnic campus. What was the chief intention behind the construction? It was regarded as an ideal emblem of technology but the building can’t satisfy that task too well if it’s hidden behind a forest of trees. This is only reason that has compelled the USFP Campus Board to move the science and technology building’s proposed location. What is the new location therefore? The Board is expecting to locate it on the unforested northwest corner of USFP’s 171.5-acre tract, near where a sign now welcomes motorists to “Bulls Country.”

According to the information, it had been decided to place the building in the south central portion of USFP’s campus at I-4 and the Polk Parkway. If it had been done, the building would have been amidst a large group of trees and the greatest victim would have been the building itself. Is there any advocacy of this abrupt step? There is Gene Engle, who chairs the USFP board and is a trustee on the overall USF board. As per Gene Engle, “Visibility is considerably better as you get closer to the northwest corner.”