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U-Md. Aims to Create Social Hub in College Park
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IN SOME COLLEGE TOWNS, campus and city mix to create a vibrant academic and social environment for students to enjoy outside the classroom. That's not quite the situation in College Park, but officials at the University of Maryland are aiming to change that with a $700 million development project called East Campus.
As The Post's Ovetta Wiggins reports:
The University of Maryland plans to tear down old student housing, abandoned research greenhouses, its mail facility and maintenance buildings to create an area where students and residents of the College Park community can shop, dine and gather for concerts.Also in the works for the 38-acre tract of land bordered by Route 1, Paint Branch Parkway, Central Campus and College Park's Green Line station is a branch of the Alexandria-based Birchmere music club, a movie theater, a grocery store and new housing. The first phase of the East Campus project is expected to be complete in 2011, the second phase by 2014.
One critical component to the success of the East Campus project is the proposed Purple Line, a mass-transit route that would link Bethesda and New Carrollton via Silver Spring and College Park. While the Purple Line's path through the U-Md. campus has not been settled — the university's president, Dan Mote, wants to avoid having it cut through the heart of Central Campus — officials are planning for the transit line to service East Campus.
» "U-Md. Project Envisions A Livelier College Park" [WaPo]
» "East Campus Redevelopment Initiative" [Rethink College Park]
» "Purple Line Redux, Redux" [Rethink College Park]
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