The campus community is invited to view the current plan and offer feedback from 2 to 4 p.m. in the 1st Floor Student Hangout in Moseley Center.
Students, faculty and staff are invited to stop by the Moseley Center on Tuesday, March 22, from 2 to 4 p.m. to review the university’s campus master plan and offer their thoughts about how the campus should develop.
Members of the campus community can join in the discussion of the Campus Master Plan adopted by the Board of Trustees in 2016 and provide feedback on future development of facilities and spaces on campus. The townhall discussion will be in the 1st floor Student Hangout of the Moseley Center from 2 to 4 p.m. on Tuesday.
Brad Moore, university architect and director of planning, design and construction, is a member of the university’s long-range planning committee, which is conducting a mid-term review of the 10-year plan. Tuesday’s town hall meeting will include representatives from architectural and planning firm Ayres Saint Gross, which guided the development of the current plan.
“It’s fairly typical at this point, particularly when you’ve been as active as we’ve been in achieving the goals of the plan, to come back and do a mid-term review,” Moore said. “We want to make sure we hear from the campus community as we look at what’s been accomplished and what we will focus on going forward.”
The plan approved in 2016 was developed using campus strategies for Elon that include: preserving ecological assets, expanding the mixed-use campus core, clarifying the road network, extending the network of open spaces, strengthening and connecting edge neighborhoods and supporting a vibrant downtown Elon.
Among the projects outlined in the plan that have already been completed are Schar Center, the Koenigsberger Learning Center, Sankey Hall, East Neighborhood, LaRose Student Commons, South Gym, the expansion of McEwen Dining Hall and parking for the Innovation Quad. IQ2 and Founders Hall, the first two buildings in the Innovation Quad, are now underway and are scheduled to be completed this fall.
Displays in the Moseley Center Student Hangout will facilitate discussions about areas of campus that will be areas of focus during the next five years. Among the areas in the plan that are prioritized for development are the Innovation Quad, the area between Colonnades and Danieley Center, South Campus, North Campus and Downtown Elon. This is an opportunity to further define how those areas should develop and how facilities can address the campus needs, Moore said. “This is fine-tuning the development areas that were shown as placeholders in the 2016 Master Plan,” Moore said.
Moore estimates that the university has achieved more at this point than was envisioned at the time the plan was adopted. “That’s part of why we wanted to do this midterm review,” he said. “We are engaging the consultants back into this process to ensure that as we continue to develop that we do so in a way that dovetails with the university’s strategic plan.”