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Carleton Updates Arts Union Project, Others for Spring, Summer

March 25, 2010 at 10:07 am

The Carleton College Board of Trustees voted at its February meeting to plan to move ahead with the Arts Union project.

The new design, projected to cost $42 million, will house the departments of Theater and Dance, and Cinema and Media Studies. The Carleton Art Gallery, conceived as a teaching museum and gallery, will also be part of the facility. The Arts Union will also include a dramatic theater, a cinema theater, dance studios, an audio recording studio, a number of faculty offices, many classrooms that can be used by any of the College’s disciplines, art studios, a large meeting and conference room, and a coffee shop and gathering space. The building will also be home to the Presentation Events and Production Support (PEPS) office and the Idea Lab, a shared, interdisciplinary laboratory for exploring and learning with digital resources and technologies, especially those that involve imagery, video and audio.

The College is currently making arrangements to remove stored College property from the building and will begin asbestos abatement in April. 

The Carleton grounds and maintenance staff will tackle a number of smaller, but still important, spring and summer projects.

The most visible of these projects from the community’s perspective will occur in College-owned houses at 100 Union Street (Reynolds) and at 111 Maple Street (Watson),  are scheduled to be razed this summer. The College currently has no plans to re-use either of those areas.

Other noticeable summer projects includes exterior work on the Chapel roof and possibly exterior stone replacement and tuck-pointing on Willis Hall. New windows will be installed in Goodsell Observatory and Old Music Hall.

Annual summer grounds improvements include aligning the Leighton and lower Cowling Arboretum parking lot entrances, landscaping updates around campus houses, and removal of the deteriorating tennis courts in the Cowling Arboretum. The Bell Field tennis courts are scheduled to be completely reconstructed this summer as well.

If you have any questions about these or other facility projects at Carleton, feel free to visit the Facilities Website for more updates or contact Gloria Heinz at 222-4167.

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