Campus Center Changing UMass Boston Landscape
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Campus
Center Changing UMass Boston Landscape
By David MacKenzie
After
many years of planning, delays, and sometimes frustration, we finally
broke ground on our new Campus Center on July 20. The center will be
the new front door to the campus and will transform the look and feel
of the campus, and that of Columbia Point as well. The facility will
consolidate student services and activities, as well as providing new
dining facilities and conference center space. It will be an open, inviting
building, facing the harbor, with a limestone shell. When completed
in December 2003, the building will be 331,000 square feet, approximately
the size of McCormack Hall.
We are currently driving over 1,000 pilings into the ground to form the structure on which the Campus Center will rest. We expect to finish the pile driving in October. Please pardon the noise and inconvenience that this activity may cause.
We plan to start constructing the steel structure for the building in late November and will have the all the steel in place by September 2002, weather permitting.
At the same time as the Campus Center construction, we are making a number of changes in our parking options. We are committed to retaining approximately the same number of parking spaces for our faculty, staff, students, and visitors throughout the construction process.
For example, we have already built an extension to the North Lot on its northeast corner with 175 spaces. Early in October, we will be opening a new parking lot, to hold approximately 360 cars that will be accessed through Wheatley Hall. In November, we will be opening an additional lot adjacent to the Clark Center, where we are converting some temporary modifications from the presidential debate into permanent parking for 104 cars.
As time goes on, we will keep you up to date on the progress of the campus center, the various parking and garage projects, and energy conservation projects through e-mail and other media.