{"id":31192,"date":"2024-04-14T17:25:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T21:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=31192"},"modified":"2024-04-14T17:34:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T21:34:29","slug":"news-organizations-cover-timmons-arena-groundbreaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/news-organizations-cover-timmons-arena-groundbreaking\/","title":{"rendered":"News organizations cover Timmons Arena groundbreaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several local TV stations covered Furman University&#8217;s groundbreaking ceremony for the $40 million Timmons Arena renovation, the largest donor-funded project in the university&#8217;s history. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2024\/04\/13\/furman-breaks-ground-timmons-arena-renovation-project\/\">FOX Carolina<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2725&amp;DateTime=4%2F13%2F2024+6%3A22%3A59+PM&amp;u=814822&amp;e=true&amp;t=False&amp;aln=64051561\">WYFF News 4<\/a> (NBC) and <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2720&amp;DateTime=4%2F14%2F2024+7%3A26%3A14+AM&amp;u=814822&amp;e=true&amp;t=False&amp;aln=30323562\">WSPA 7 News<\/a> (CBS) were on hand for the event, which took place Saturday, April 13. Construction is expected to be complete by fall 2025. On the FOX Carolina clip, hear comments from Furman&#8217;s Jason Donnelly, vice president for intercollegiate athletics, Pierre Curtis, women&#8217;s head basketball coach, and Bob Richey, men&#8217;s head basketball coach. Renderings of the renovation project and comments from Richey appear in the WYFF coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman celebrated the $40 million Timmons Arena renovation with a groundbreaking ceremony Saturday, April 13. Several news outlets covered the event and spoke to Furman&#8217;s Jason Donnelly, Pierre Curtis and Bob Richey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":31198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,57,1569,6,1578,120],"tags":[2719,2583,216,2720],"class_list":["post-31192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-donor-stories","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-wspa-7-news","category-wyff-tv","tag-athletics-facilities","tag-basketball-arena","tag-campus-construction","tag-sports-and-entertainment-arena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}