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Summary: The Master Plan for Facilities
Review of Accomplishments, Priorities, and Assumptions to Date
March 2008
St. Lawrence’s Master Plan is a continuum of decision-making
communicated and recorded in a series of documents. While we recognize
a previous campus master plan carried out in 1986, the basis of our present
thinking begins with the Campus Master Plan of 1997 performed under the auspices
of the campus Buildings and Grounds Committee with the professional input of
Art Lidsky of Dober, Lidsky, Craig and Associates.
Since 1997 it has been generally understood that the Buildings and Grounds
Committee is the keeper, defender, and amender of the master plan, with ultimate
approval by resolution of the Architecture and Physical Plant Committee and
Board of Trustees.
Priorities
The 1997 plan listed the following priorities, virtually all of which have
been addressed.
Highest
- New Student Center, Bookstore, and renovation of Dana Dining Hall
- Recreation and athletic improvements, including renovation of
Augsbury/Leithead,
expanded Fitness Center, and a new playing
field and
track
- Renovations to Owen D. Young Library, including the associated
relocation
of the remaining sciences collection to the Launders Center
High
- Increase in the number of computer classroom/lab spaces
- Additional space provided for the arts at Griffiths Arts Center
- Science facility improvements and expansion
- Provision of space resources for the Outdoor Program
Accomplishments through 2007
Our accomplishments have tracked well with our identified priorities from
1997:
- ODY Library Renovation $
5.0 million
- Significant Computer Classroom Additions
- Wachtmeister Field Station $
1.5 million
- Johnson Hall of Science $36.9
million
- Arts Phase I $
1.3 million
- Arts Phase II $
2.5 million
Total $47.2
million
- Appleton Arena $
5.0 million
- Softball Field $ .4
million
- North Country Field (artificial turf) $
1.8 million
- Weeks Field $ .8
million
- Merrick-Pinkard Outdoor Track $ .8
million
- Leckonby Stadium $
1.2 million
- Augsbury Phase I Renovation $
1.3 million
- Creasy Way (Leigh Street) Athletic Fields $ 2.2
million
- Newell Field House – Stafford Fitness Center $12.9
million
- Robie Squash Center $ 2.0
million
- Tom Fay Baseball Field $ .6
million
- Sandy MacAllaster Soccer Field $ .6
million
- Boathouse $ .3
million
Total $29.9
million
- Student Life - Student Support
- Student Center $15.0
million
- Steiner Student Residences - Townhouses $ 6.0
million
- Residential Refurbishment $ 6.0
million
- Dana Dining Hall Renovation $ 5.0
million
- Brewer Bookstore Renovation $ 2.8
million
- Diana B. Torrey ’82 Health and Counseling Ctr. $ 2.2
million
- Noble Student Center Renovation $ .4
million Total $37.4
million
- MacAllaster House $
1.0 million
- Security Access and Campus Lighting $
1.0 million
- University Inn Renovation $
1.6 million
- Warehouse $ .4
million
- Facilities Recapitalization (10 years) approx: $19.0
million
- Library Book Acquisitions (10 years) approx: $12.0
million
- Information Technology (10 years) approx: $12.0
million
Total $47.0
million
Total
all Groups $161.5
million
Other Capital Over Ten Years (equip replacement, etc) 16.5
million
Ten Years of Capital Expenditure est. through 2007 $178.0
million
Campus-Wide Design Issues
Along with the obvious facilities needs, the 1997 plan identified campus-wide
design issues that we have attempted to improve upon as we have invested directly
in buildings. Design issues identified in 1997 are listed below with
current commentary in italics.
- University does not have a natural entrance. (The logical entrance, Romoda
Drive, off Main Street enters the less attractive
side of campus. We want the original arrival point, Park
Street, to look and feel like our main entrance to campus – see
next comment.)
- Park Street simply “drives by.” (Much has been done
to mitigate this concern and create an “entrance to campus” feel
to Park Street. The elimination of Leigh
Street and creation of Creasy Way has connected
the athletic facilities to the campus. Millennium Way, stretching
from the StudentCenter to Brewer Bookstore,
connects the campus to the west of Park Street. The
additional activity of the bookstore, the added athletic facilities, the
Teaching and LearningCenter, and the Torrey
Health and CounselingCenter, has incorporated Park
Street as part of campus. Campus lighting has been placed
on Park Street to make it feel like part of the campus. The
campus lighting, many crosswalks, and a stoplight have also been added
for safety.)
- Two campuses, the original St. Lawrence and the old Canton ATI. (The StudentCenter and
the new science building, combined with the planned demolition of the old
bookstore/ health center will eliminate any sense of two campuses.)
- “Semi-walking” walking campus. (We have a great
deal of asphalt roadway yet to be replaced by “walkways” with ADA,
emergency, and maintenance vehicle accessibility as needed. This
can only come about as funding allows.)
- May have too much space between buildings - suggest future expansion within
the present boundaries. (The placement of the new science building
addressed the “best practice” concept of infilling rather than
expanding boundaries. On the other hand, we chose to expand the boundary
with the townhouses, for a variety of competing considerations.)
- Important positive feature, the historic landscape. (This area, defined
as the corner of Park and University, south to Sykes, then back north to
include Hepburn, Carnegie, Gunnison Chapel, Richardson
and Atwood, along with its trees and green space, is seen as our treasure.)
Much of the University’s thinking is founded upon the need to balance outcomes return
on investment with financial return on investment. How do we
compare and choose between the measurable return of cash from an energy-saving
project, for example, versus a less tangible outcomes return? How do
we find the appropriate balance for the University at this particular time?
Finally, more than ever before, our planning effort should be guided by a sense
of sustainability, a commitment that was recently borne out in the designation
of Johnson Hall of Science as the first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design) Gold-certified college or university building in New York State.
The University expects to begin two major projects in the spring of 2008:
*Phase IIIA, the first of two steps in the next stage of the renovation of
Griffiths Arts Center as part of the Arts Master Plan
*The first steps in Phase II of the sciences project, renovation of Bewkes
Hall. These first steps will total $2.5 million of an estimated $20-plus
million total Bewkes renovation.
Additionally, plans to provide a pub and dance space on campus are being developed.
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