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Thursday, March 19, 2009
News UNC Charlotte is moving into the First Ward
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:50 PM
This is good news on several levels: The construction projects will put people to work, the city will have a pretty new building, folks who work Uptown will be able to get to class on time and, hopefully, the curriculum will be non-traditional-student friendly. (Meaning: Classes will be scheduled in such a way that older, often married and working people will be able to graduate in a reasonable amount of time.)
But, as a UNC Charlotte senior, graduating in May, it's a little frustrating to learn my school is going to spend $50.4 million dollars on a new building as professors lament the fact that their contracts aren't being renewed right after they apologize to the class for making us print our own syllabi — because the school can't afford the paper and ink. I'm not a math major, but those numbers seem off to me. Just sayin'.
Chancellor Philip Dubois said the university has built many academic buildings in the past few years, but this might be its most important.“We are literally bringing our considerable intellectual resources to the heart of the Charlotte community,” he said.
The 143,000-square-foot building at the southwest corner of Brevard and Ninth streets will overlook a proposed 4-acre park within Levine Properties' planned 22-acre urban village.
Over time, the village also is to include parking garages and up to 2 million square feet of offices, apartments, condos, shops and restaurants.
See what the new building will look like and read the rest of this Charlotte Observer article here.
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