<p>The mile must refer to the distance for someone tramping from far north campus (say, Elder Hall) to far south at the MAB. </p>
<p>I agree $90 million sounds like a lot of money but this will be a lot of building. It’ll house virtually everything for the 640 students and 125 faculty in the music school (classrooms, offices, rehearsal and storage spaces) and will also be providing both a theater and new concert space for the entire campus community. The money will also help pay for the exterior work to create a new music and arts green space. Remember that the new building will be a replacement allowing the old MAB to be rehabbed and utilized by other university departments.</p>
<p>This project has been long overdue and, as any music student can tell you, has been the one weak link in what otherwise stands to be one of the finest, if not the finest, academic music program in the country.</p>
<p>Hopefully this, along with the new Silverman chem/engineering building, is just the beginning of facility upgrading made possible by the Lyrica supra billion dollar windfall.</p>