Re: UNH Wildcats TD Garden and Beyond 2015
There's a boatload of new construction / renovation about to get underway on the UNH campus, much of it in line with the most recent Master Plan (2012) that's viewable in its entirety on the UNH website. Capital projects that will be getting underway soon are summarized here: [http://www.unh.edu/facilities/unh-ca...s-fy-2015-2020] with full-color renderings, and include: renovation (and a new addition) to Hamilton Smith Hall; expansion of Holloway Commons; a 2-story addition to the Hamel Rec Center (formerly Snively Arena) that will replace much of the existing WPA-era outdoor pool (which will itself be rebuilt in the reduced footprint between the the new HRC addition and the Alumni Center); along with the ongoing expansion / rebuild of Cowell Stadium. Demolition of the three Lower Quad dorms is not part of the *current* construction schedule, but is included as part of several options under consideration for a new Center for the Arts to (eventually) supplant existing PCAC. Engelhardt (nearest lot C) would be demolished first as part of Phase I, followed later by Hunter and Gibbs (my old undergraduate dorm) in later phased expansion(s). Maps and renderings are available here: [http://www.unh.edu/sites/www.unh.edu...orumslides.pdf] ... Comments from concerned townies here: [http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll..._01/150229527/] ...
The ATO site is NOT part of the UNH campus, and is wholly within the Town of Durham; any new construction there will have to meet Town building specs. IMHO Holloway Commons is indeed much too large for its location; when it was all but complete and I first crested the hill coming into town - and saw that it completely blocked the view of T-Hall - I cried a little inside. I doubt this would've been allowed to happen under the leadership of the former Head of Facilities Planning, but when Victor Aziz retired much of his admired (at least by me) notions re: architectural design in harmony with the campus as a whole (see, for example, the Dimond Library expansion, renovations to Conant and Murkland Halls, renovation / expansion of James Hall, replacement of DeMerritt Hall, etc. planned under his watch) were seemingly retired along with him ...
I haven't seen those personally yet, but I've heard some grumblings from old friends who still live close by. Time marches on, I guess, but it's a shame that so much of the small-town Durham feel is seemingly being lost ...
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