FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Kenneth M. Kohlen
(805) 756-1185
Cal Poly Students Display Ideas for Morro Bay Conference Center
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Cal Poly students in Architecture Professor Kenneth
Kohlen’s class will display their design ideas Friday for a conference
center and hotel under consideration in Morro Bay.
The students will display their proposals for judges in a competition
between 1:15 and 5 p.m. in Room 313 of the Architecture Building on
campus. The display is open to the public.
The City of Morro Bay has requested proposals to develop a hotel and
conference center on the old Anthony’s restaurant site overlooking
the
Embarcadero and harbor. A consultant hired by the city recommended
developing a 150-room conference center-hotel with a banquet-conference
room capable of seating 250 people, a restaurant and some retail space,
Kohlen said.
Morro Bay Public Services Director Bruce Ambo met with Kohlen’s
students
earlier this spring to explain the recommendations. Fourth-year
architecture students in Kohlen’s design lab then went to work on
their
visions for the center.
The students’ designs include a center with a 250-car parking garage,
a
user-friendly plaza bridging the 20-foot change between Market Street
and the Embarcadero. The entire complex would be completely accessible
to the handicapped, Kohlen said.
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