{"id":84297,"date":"2018-09-10T15:28:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T01:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=84297"},"modified":"2019-04-05T15:30:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T01:30:27","slug":"mccarthy-mall-gets-a-facelift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/10\/mccarthy-mall-gets-a-facelift\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy Mall gets a facelift"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_84400\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84400\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-mccarthy-mall.jpg\" alt=\"tree lined walkway at U H Manoa\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-mccarthy-mall.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-mccarthy-mall-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa&#8217;s McCarthy Mall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libweb.hawaii.edu\/names\/mccarthy.html\">McCarthy Mall<\/a> is looking a little brighter this fall. The highly used thoroughfare leading up to Hamilton Library, Kennedy Theatre and a number of other buildings at the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> just completed a facelift over the summer. Recommendations by the newly-created M\u0101noa Campus Brightening Task Force, a partnership comprised of staff and students, identified areas in need of repair and improvements such as McCarthy Mall.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_84357\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84357\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-hamilton-stairs-before-after.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-hamilton-stairs-before-after-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"stairs\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-84357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-hamilton-stairs-before-after-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-hamilton-stairs-before-after-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-hamilton-stairs-before-after.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before, left, and after of the stairs by Hamilton Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The project was completed in four weeks and consisted of repairing, painting, planting and power washing buildings, stairs, benches and walkways, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>McCarthy Mall concrete walkway repair <\/li>\n<li>McCarthy Mall planters repair and paint <\/li>\n<li>McCarthy Mall raised bed benches paint <\/li>\n<li>Bilger Hall exterior paint<\/li>\n<li>Hamilton Library concrete stairs repair <\/li>\n<li>Hamilton Library wall exterior paint<\/li>\n<li>Snyder Hall entryway power wash and paint <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Future projects along McCarthy Mall are currently being considered by the group, which may include modifications to the Webster Hall trellis and entry courtyard, and painting of the exterior walls of Keller Hall and the Art Building.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The M\u0101noa Campus Brightening pilot project identified critical areas along McCarthy Mall that improved the appearance and safety of the mall for our campus community,&rdquo; said <strong>Blake Araki<\/strong>, <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> director of campus operations and facilities. &ldquo;I\u2019ve been seeing the raised benches being used more often by students, and that\u2019s a good sign that the project is making an impact.&ldquo;<\/p>\n<p>The task force members are part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/offices\/administration\/\">Office of the Vice President for Administration<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uh-cdc.org\/\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Community Design Center<\/a>, which provides service learning and professional development opportunities for students, in <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arch.hawaii.edu\/\">School of Architecture<\/a>. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_84356\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84356\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-bilger-before-after.jpg\" alt=\"exteriors photos of Bilger Hall, one before painting, one after\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-bilger-before-after.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-bilger-before-after-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before, left, and after of Bilger Hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improvements to areas along McCarthy Mall at the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa were completed this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[21,19,202,9],"class_list":["post-84297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-21st-century-facilities","tag-construction","tag-facilities","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84297"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84403,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84297\/revisions\/84403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}