February 5, 2010

FEU president Lydia Echauz and dean Benjamin Espiritu led a busload of faculty members from the Morayta campus Thursday morning to inspect the renovation work being rushed in the landmark Zuellig Pharma building on Buendia Avenue, future site of FEU Makati.

Lydia Echauz

When the Far Eastern University opens the Makati campus by June, it will join oldtime Manila schools like Mapua, Centro Escolar and Lyceum—Lyceum’s College of Law is actually located in Salcedo Village, a few blocks away— that had sprouted branches along the Buendia (now Gil Puyat Avenue) corridor to tap Makati’s and Taguig’s  growing army of working students.

Espiritu, a former Mindoro Oriental governor and La Salle dean, was particularly impressed by the state of the six-story building that FEU is leasing from an Ayala company.

“Everything still looks new, and modern,” Espiritu said, referring to the nearly five-decade-old structure designed by

National Artist Lindy Locsin.

The first two floors of FEU Makati would be run as a joint venture with Pancake House for an on-site restaurant training facility.