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An elevated walkway will
offer members of the MU community safe passage across busy
College Avenue. University officials gathered Nov. 19 for
a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the latest in a series
of renovations and construction projects that are part of
Residential Life’s 15-year master plan to improve
residential facilities across campus. Architect’s
rendering courtesy of Residential Life
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Bridge to Safety
Hundreds of students each day dodge motorists
as they scamper across College Avenue to their classes and then
back across to their dormitories, Greek houses or apartments
in the East Campus neighborhood. By the beginning of the fall
2004 semester, they’ll have a safer option for navigating
the busy thoroughfare.
As part of Residential
Life’s master plan, a pedestrian bridge across College
Avenue that will be under construction shortly soon will
offer them safer passage. The elevated walkway will connect
Hatch and Shurz residence halls on the east and the new Virginia
Avenue housing complex currently under construction on the
west.
More than 1,000 students currently live in
Hatch and Schurz halls on College Avenue. By 2006, more than
2,000 students will live in residence halls located on either
side of College Avenue. A 2001 study found that more than 69
percent of pedestrians who cross College Avenue do not use the
designated crosswalk.
The new pedestrian bridge and the Virginia
Avenue complex are some of the first steps in a $300 million
Residential Life master plan that will upgrade or replace every
dorm on campus over the next 15 years.
When the 721-bed Virginia
Avenue complex opens next fall, it will be the first new dormitory
project built at Mizzou in nearly 40 years. The next step will
be to demolish Smith, Donnelly and Blair halls at the intersection
of Providence Road and Stadium Boulevard across from Memorial
Stadium and replace them with a new 656-bed complex on that
site. All of the funding for master plan projects will come from
student fees.
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