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Other Projects Underway or on the Docket

Friday, March 11, 2005

MacLean Engineering Sciences Center

The $20.7 million MacLean Engineering Sciences Center is being built across what was a parking lot next to Cummings Hall. Named in honor of Barry MacLean '60, the facility will feature a 2,700 square foot atrium, technologically advanced classrooms and lecture halls, laboratories, study spaces, and faculty offices. Facilities planners say the new building is oriented towards undergraduates who study engineering and computer science. Koetter, Kim and Associates of Boston designed the facility.


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The new MacLean Engineering Sciences Center, at the end of Tuck Mall.

Revamped Athletic Facilities

Beginning in Spring 2005, the College will begin a massive new project to bring the Alumni Gynmasium up to date. The renovations would increase the space allotted for undergraduate recreational fitness and varsity programs. Lavallee and Brensinger, of Manchester, has been contracted to develop plans.

There are also plans in the works to build an intercollegiate soccer competition facility that meets N.C.A.A. standards. The soccer building will be raised near Scully-Fahey Field and include a natural-grass field and seating for 1,600 spectators.

Speculation abounds about plans to remodel Memorial Field. Athletics director Josie Harper told the Valley News that she has formed a committee to study the matter. Sources suggest that the committee is considering moving the track around the field to another venue and reducing in size or removing entirely the east-side stands.


Facilities Planning Office

Interior of the MacLean Engineering Sciences Center.

Corey Ford Rugy Clubhouse

Construction of the Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse began last summer at Garipay Field on Reservoir Road, north of Hanover and across from the golf course. The site includes two practice fields and a primary game pitch, Brophy Field, located below the clubhouse. The facility, which includes changing rooms and a spectator deck, is being built into the hillside at the halfway line. Upon completion, it should be among the premier rugby clubhouses in the country, and certainly the best in New England.

The clubhouse should be finished in the spring. A formal dedication will be held over the weekend of September 23rd.


New Arts Center

The College has contracted Machado and Silvetti, a Manchester architecture firm, to draw up plans for a new visual arts center. Tentative plans would create a new home for the studio art and film and television studies departments along Lebanon Street, behind the Hopkins Center. The building would feature improved programming space and larger studios.


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The South Block development in downtown Hanover.

South Block Development

Preliminary work has begun on the so-called "South Block," the College-owned land along South Main and East South Streets in downtown Hanover. Plans call for 29,000 square feet of commercial space, 31 apartments and an underground parking garage with 118 spaces. The project is set to conclude in 2007.

Already, several buildings have been razed, and the historic wooden structure on the corner of South Main and East South Streets has been abandoned. According to planners, that historic building will be moved east along South Street.

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