Master planning continues at UIC

03/10/2010 11:02 AM

By Micah Maidenberg
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UIC's Douglas Hall, on the left, could be rehabbed.

Despite the financial and budgetary uncertainty swirling around the University of Illinois-Chicago, a project to plan the next round of the school's campus expansion continues this week.
On March 11, at 1:30 p.m. in the auditorium in the Molecular Biology Research Building, 900 S. Ashland, and on March 12, starting at 10:30 a.m. in Room 605 of Student Center East, 750 S. Halsted, planners hired by UIC will discuss the master plan they've been drawing up.
“In general, UIC envisions a greener campus, with a spate of new buildings replacing the current seas of surface parking and better connections between the school’s health and medical uses on the west and the traditional academic campus on the east,” Chicago Journal reported about the process last September.
Further details can be found online, at www.uic.edu/master_plan.
The board of trustees of the University of Illinois system is expected to vote on a final master plan at its meeting in May.
In other UIC news, the U. of I. trustees were expected to vote March 10 on awarding a $3.7 million contract to the Barton Marlow Company for renovation of Douglas Hall, in the heart of the school’s eastern campus.
Total cost of the Douglas renovation is expected to cost more than $16 million, according to a document included with the meeting’s agenda. UIC’s College of Business will use the structure.
The school has renovated other buildings on campus named after the presidents, like Lincoln Hall.


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