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Changing Campus
University of Mary’s Vision 2030 capital campaign to reshape campus
BY KAYLA PRASEK
Over the course of the next 15 years, students, faculty and staff at the University of Mary in Bismarck, N.D., will see their campus change drastically. The university’s $272 million Vision 2030 capital campaign will be split into three phases.
Phase one will consist of $96 million worth of projects and will be split into separate parts. Three projects make up the first part of phase one, totaling about $40 million: a residence hall, a wellness center and a campus center. The three projects were designed by JLG Architects, while Kraus Anderson and Roers are providing general contractor services.
Work on the university’s $11 million, 276-bed residence hall for freshmen women started in October 2015 and is expected to be completed by August. “It has been a goal of the university to become more of a residential campus,” says Executive Vice President Greg Vetter. “There has been a need and demand for on-campus residency as we grew significantly. Right now, there are no single rooms and not as many upperclassmen can live on campus as would like.”
The residence hall is a standard suite-style dormitory, but it will also house the Saint Scholastica Hall for Women, which is for women of all ages who have the desire to live in the community and grow in faith, character and holiness, Vetter says.
U of Mary broke ground on its $9.25 million fieldhouse in November 2015, with work expected to be finished by November 2016. The two-level fieldhouse will house four basketball courts, a 200-meter track, tennis and racquetball courts, a group fitness room, coaches’ offices, locker rooms, a wellness center and student lounge.
“We haven’t had a wellness center to this scale before,” Vetter says. “It’ll be available to all athletes, non-athletes and faculty. In addition, it’ll have a full-size indoor track, which means we’ll be able to host events. We have 17 varsity sports that need this space to practice.”
The university will break ground on its $20 million campus center in May and has set a completion date of August 2017. The campus center has been in the works for several years, says Jerome Richter, vice president for public affairs and mission advancement. The two-story, 80,000-square-foot campus center will repurpose the existing fieldhouse and will be connected to the McDowell Activity Center to create a central focal point for the campus.
“The campus center has been talked about for four years, so it’s been a known need,” Vetter says. “Especially with our growth in out-of-state students, we need this ‘living room’ on campus. It will really be the heartbeat of campus.”
The campus center will feature Founders Hall, a 600-person events center, along with a 24/7 dining hall, book and retail store, individual conference rooms, student lounges, student organization space, a coffee shop and Hall of Fame concourse. The campus center will overlook the Missouri River Valley, with two sides of Founders Hall consisting of floor-to-ceiling windows to give guests a good view.
“These are three needs that really go together,” Richter says. “If we have more students, they need more space and more things to do. It benefits the public as well, as they can make an evening of it when there are events on campus. It really will be a social experience from top to bottom.” PB
Kayla Prasek Staff Writer, Prairie Business
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