Good news! Things have moved past the “dirt” stage…and into the “dirt and water” stage. Yay! Yep, still nothing super duper exciting but they have hit water. I didn’t hear any pumps going when I took the latest photos on Thursday but I suspect they’ll soon crank them up. A friend recently told me that [...]
Last weekend I accompanied Cheryl to Minneapolis while she attended a conference for work. When she wasn’t learning about important things, we were eating our way through Minneapolis – with a stop in St. Paul
I’m back with three whole weeks of progress on Mayo’s new proton beam therapy building! Yes, I decided not to bore you with week after week of posts with a pictures of a hole getting slowly deeper. I’ll get back to weekly posts once things move past the dirt stage. They are making some good [...]
Here we are into week three of Mayo Clinic’s Jacobson Building construction project. I’m pretty sure much of the proton beam part of this facility will be underground considering it includes a particle accelerator, so there’s not much of a change from the second or first weeks except that the hole is getting deeper. Besides [...]
Welcome to the week two images of the Mayo Clinic Jacobson building construction project. As I described last week, I’ll be taking a set of images once per week to document the progression of the new proton beam therapy building in Rochester, Mn. I’ll skip the chit-chat and let you get to the images…
Mayo Clinic recently announced a $100 million gift from patient, philanthropist, and entrepreneur, Richard Jacobson will fund a new building to house the proton beam therapy program. Proton beam therapy is some cool stuff but that’s not what we’re here for. New buildings funded by generous gifts are really nothing new for Rochester but this [...]
