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The OId Heat Building <br />A ${O Million Gapital Stacking <br />Gampaign <br />oA <br />INTIONATED SOIOTIONS <br />A PU BLIC-PRIVATE I NVESTMENT STRATEGY <br />The Old Heat Building stands at a defining moment between preservation and progress. Once a utilitarian engine that powered campus <br />infrastructure, it now presents an extraordinary opportunity to power something far more enduring: innovation, entrepreneurship, <br />workforce development, and community connection. lts historic masonry, industrial scale, and architectural authenticity give it gravitas. <br />Its next chapter gives it purpose. <br />The University will own the building. lt will steward the asset, guide its long-term mission, and ensure that programming aligns with <br />institutional priorities, academic partnerships, and regional economic development goals. Yet the transformation of the Old Heat <br />Building cannot rely solely on University capital resources. lts rebirth requires a carefully structured and deliberately sequenced capital <br />campaign-one that blends public infrastructure investment, corporate leadership, philanthropic partnership, and broad community <br />participation into a coordinated $10 million capital stack. <br />This is not sirnply a fundraising effort. lt is a structured public-private investment strategy designed to align infrastructure finance, <br />corporate undenvriting, philanthropic gifts, and grassroots engagement into a cohesive financial architecture. <br />At the heart of the strategy is a recognition that the building's renovation is modular and phased. The work begins with the warm <br />shelland life-safety systems that stabilize the structure and make it occupiable. From there, mezzanine build-outs, annex activation, <br />historic preservation elements, and exterior site improvements unfold in clearly defined scopes. That phasing is not only a construction <br />strategy-it is a fundraising advantage. Sponsors are not asked to fund abstractions; they are invited to complete tangible, visible, <br />named spaces that permanently link their investment to the physical transformation of the building.