Construction in front of Little Hall will last at least another month, though it was originally scheduled to be complete by the beginning of the school year, University officials said yesterday.
The supply of stone for new walkways for the Dillon Gym parking lot and the Edwards Hall courtyard has not kept pace with campus construction, said Kathleen Milligan, the University's vice president for facilities.
"During the summer, just the sheer number of projects we were working on at Princeton led to a shortfall in the amount of stone available," she said.
Officials involved in the projects were unable to comment on why the University undertook more construction than it could procure the material to complete on time.
George Glahn, the project manager handling the construction near Little Hall, said the project could have been completed by now had there been sufficient bluestone, the historic stone that the University uses for outdoor walkways in the older parts of campus.
When the University learned it would not have enough stone to complete all the projects on time, Glahn said, priorities had to be set for which project to finish first. He explained that plans for walkways in front of Blair Hall were scaled back so that less stone would be needed.
Milligan said the new sidewalks in front of Nassau Hall had to be completed before President Tilghman's installation ceremony in September. The completion of the walkway around Blair Hall was placed second, leaving Little's exterior renovations third in line for available stone.
The delay is "related to all of the work the University was doing at one time," Olexa said. "The stone was needed for the work in front of Blair Tower and Nassau Hall and Little Hall. And it was simply too much for the quarries to produce all at one time. Priorities were set — Nassau Hall and Blair first, Little last."
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