<div>(Ames-Cedar Falls) -- The Board of Regents has approved two requests for the food service systems on the Iowa State University and University of Northern Iowa campuses.ISU vice president Sean Reeder laid out the plans for a new dining support center."This will serve as the centralized food production, storage and logistics facility for I-S-U dining. The approximately 45,000 gross square foot facility will be located South of the Wallace Wilson residence halls and will replace our bakery an commissary operations currently located in the Knapp-Storms building," he says.The projected cost of the new building is more than $37 million."The new facility will centralized food production, receiving, distribution and storage operations, creating operational efficiencies and supporting the long term needs of our university dining system," he says.The bakery and commissary will support more than 20 I-S-U Dining locations, including three marketplace dining centers serving more than 16-000 meals daily. I-S-U plans to demolish the Knapp Storms building once the new center is complete. Construction is expected to start in June 2027 and run through July 2030. UNI received permission for a $900,000 budget revision to update the Redeker dining center. UNI vice president Michael Hager says there are three things they are adding to the upgrade."The first is the 2013 renovations. They have relooked at those renovations and the fire code suggests maybe a few revisions that weren't done in 2013. So those will be done now," he says.He says they also need to move a large cooler to accommodate the renovation."They're moving that in a location that will actually prove far more efficient for how the staff operates. So they can put more meals out without additional staff, the manufacturer won't guarantee their seals on those. And so those coolers are kind of expensive. And so that's part of the project," Hager says.He says they are also looking at expanding the new flooring. Construction is scheduled for summer 2027, with a new budget total of more than four million dollars.</div>

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(Ames-Cedar Falls) -- The Board of Regents has approved two requests for the food service systems on the Iowa State University and University of Northern Iowa campuses. ISU vice president Sean Reeder laid out the plans for a new dining support center. "This will serve as the centralized food production,...

Food service projects approved for ISU, UNI

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(Ames-Cedar Falls) -- The Board of Regents has approved two requests for the food service systems on the Iowa State University and University of Northern I

Food service projects approved for ISU, UNI

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