The NEC continues to disintigrate. Sacred Heart and Merriimack both leaving the conference next year. This continues a trend which saw Bryant and RMU leave in recent years.
 

The building across the street from Palumbo was recently listed for sale without an asking price. It's approximately 120,000 square feet. The present owner only utilizes about 40,000 square feet. If I'm not mistaken it was built in the 1970's. The present day Duquesne campus was a mixture of warehouses, garages and row houses prior to the mid-1960's. The houses were predominately owned by first and second generation Italians. The city had a public works department warehouse on Bluff St., there was also a U. S. Post Office garage and a large garage owned by a laundry company. There was even a stable where a "junk man" kept his horse and wagon.   A few present-day academic buildings utilize the structural skeletons of a number of these warehouse/garages. The campus was not a pretty place in the early 1960's. :-)  

If you go to the Duquesne University web site and search for the new "Institutional Master Plan" you will be taken to a page where you can access renderings of some of the proposed construction projects including a few concerning Rooney Field.

There is an interesting article at a local construction industry website concerning the rapidly rising construction costs in the Pittsburgh area and what effect it will have on future construction projects. Construction costs, i.e., materials, fuel, labor, etc., have risen 10% in the last year and at a much higher rate in the last two months do in part to labor shortages, price increases and uncertainty about the effect tariffs will have on construction materials. The author suggests this will lead to some project delays and almost certainly owners  "getting less but paying more."  I'm curious to know if the increased costs will have an effect on plans for Palumbo.