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Heritage Village—Today

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REGIONAL ANALYSIS

REGIONAL ANALYSIS

The campus needs to be utilized more due to its location. Place different amenities for students and faculty to utilize. This is their home away from home so make it convenient for them all.

Many of the students living on campus reside in Heritage Village. The buildings and adjoining grounds including the parking lot are heavily used spaces where students gather and socialize. Improvements to the parking lot and open spaces around the buildings would create a more inviting environment for these activities.

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More shade, seating areas, and pedestrian pathways would help activate the neighborhood’s extensive lawns and connect Heritage Village more directly with other parts of campus. The current unmet demand for parking could be served by new supplemental parking and parking policies that, in tandem, incentivize the use of remote lots and the addition of safe and accessible pathways to these lots.

Breakdown the scale of the large parking lot by providing more shade and pedestrian connections.

All the parking lots need visible lines for parking spaces!

A lack of student-focused amenities could be addressed by moving Alcorn merchandise sales to the Gateway Village or the Campus Union, reallocating space and services in the bookstore building to better serve the needs of residential students, such as food service and after-hours social space.

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