From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 1, 1989:

The busy construction season at Kansas University was under way. David Schaecher, assistant director of facilities planning at KU, showed a Journal-World reporter the dozen or more charts pinned to his office wall which helped him keep track of the various projects. Three new buildings and one major renovation in progress were expected to cost more than $31 million, and plans were being finalized for a $13 million performing arts center in Lawrence and a $6 million satellite campus in Overland Park. In view of the long-term demand for space, Allen Wiechert, university director of facilities planning, and his colleagues were gearing up to prepare a new campus building plan. “We hope to draw up a plan that meets our needs 10 to 15 years down the road — a plan that reflects renovation, expansion and new construction,” Schaecher explained. Meanwhile, the first phase of the science library was expected to be finished in September, with the 500,000-volume building to be open to students in November. The Dole Human Development Center had a planned finish date in March, and the first parking garage on the Lawrence campus, located directly north of Allen Fieldhouse, was to be finished in September.