{"id":22619,"date":"2006-06-14T10:21:56","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T17:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=22619"},"modified":"2015-08-17T15:05:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T22:05:17","slug":"finding-nau-campus-getting-sign-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/finding-nau-campus-getting-sign-makeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding NAU: Campus getting sign makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few additional trees and some construction fencing near the Interstate 17 entrance to Northern Arizona University are only a hint of a significant campus makeover.<\/strong><\/p>\n

NAU will be upgrading entranceways and signs across campus, part of a “wayfinding” project that promises to beautify and unify the look of the campus. The project also has a practical side: It will help people get around NAU’s 700-plus-acre campus.<\/p>\n

The project, which began in May with some landscape work near the interchange of McConnell and Pine Knoll drives, consists of two elements.<\/p>\n

The first includes entryways and signs for traffic, buildings, public space, ped way and parking. The purpose is to unify the campus with consistent and clearly defined signage throughout.<\/p>\n

The project’s second element includes landscape improvements to various locations on campus, most notably the entranceway at McConnell Drive near I-17.<\/p>\n

NAU plans to have the McConnell Drive entryway become NAU’s “front door,” according to\u00a0Rich Bowen<\/strong>, associate vice president of Administration and Finance.<\/p>\n

“We’re creating an entryway that will be instantly recognizable as you enter the campus and even as you drive by on the interstate,” Bowen said.<\/p>\n

The McConnell-area entryway will have a large, curved sandstone wall and pylons near Pine Knoll. Plantings and additional landscape work will help create the entrance.<\/p>\n

The wall, pylons and landscaping are meant to give a “sense of arrival” to the campus, Bowen said.<\/p>\n

Planning on the project started more than a year ago. Capital Assets and Services with consultants from ABACUS Project Management and Two Twelve Associates worked with administrators and student groups to design the project.<\/p>\n

Most of the work is expected to be completed by mid-August, though complete installation isn’t expected until later in the fall.<\/p>\n

View the wayfinding project details\u00a0online<\/a>, including more examples of planned campus signage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few additional trees and some construction fencing near the Interstate 17 entrance to Northern Arizona University are only a hint of a significant campus makeover. NAU will be upgrading entranceways and signs across campus, part of a “wayfinding” project that promises to beautify and unify the look of the campus. The project also has…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":22620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}