February 9th, 2008 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in On Campus Development, Purple Line
The UMD administration has completed an “update” to the Facilities Master Plan that reflects changes since the original plan was approved nearly seven years ago. It includes a re-affirmation of many of the original plan’s goals, changes to construction timelines, and tables summarizing changes to campus facilities that have taken place since the 2000 Master [...]
January 15th, 2008 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in East Campus, On Campus Development, Purple Line
The East Campus project is located roughly half a mile from the College Park Metrorail station, adjacent ten bus routes, bisected by a bike trail connected to a major regional trail system, and the future home of a Purple Line light rail station. The project developers have made a guess as to how much less [...]
December 10th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in On Campus Development, Purple Line, Transportation
Over the past four days, over 100 faculty, alumni, staff, students, and neighbors have signed our petition supporting the Campus Drive alignment for the Purple Line on Campus. We have been overwhelmed by this outpouring of support and hope it demonstrates broad-based and diverse support for the alignment preferred by the Maryland Transit Administration’s planners [...]
December 6th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in On Campus Development, Purple Line, Transportation
We have described before why we think the Campus Drive Alignment (purple above) is the best location for the Purple Line in College Park. However, some campus leaders have continued to advocate for an alternative, “Stadium Drive” alignment. Today we launch a petition in support of the Campus Drive Alignment. Please add your name if [...]
December 4th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in On Campus Development
University leaders are now accepting community comments as part of the process to create a new strategic plan for all aspects of the university’s development. In fact, one of the feedback questions directly concerns the East Campus project: “The East Campus redevelopment project will bring dramatic changes to the College Park environment. What other such [...]
November 9th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in On Campus Development, Purple Line, Transportation
The latest installment in the campus debate about the proper location of the Purple Line on campus comes in the form of two op-eds, one by graduate student Danny Rogers and another by myself today. In mine, I analyze some of the data released by the Maryland Transit Administration last week. It turns out a [...]
October 26th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in On Campus Development, Purple Line, Transportation
The Maryland Transit Administration will present information this Monday about where the Purple Line could go on campus when the light rail link is constructed between Bethesda and New Carrollton. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29 in the University Visitor Center. We strongly encourage everyone interested in the future of [...]
October 24th, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in Housing, Knox Box Redevelopment, Northgate Area, On Campus Development, Politics, Route 1
It has been about 6 months since the issue of student housing really exploded in College Park and anyone (ourselves included) would have had a hard time predicting what has taken place since that time. What started off with hundreds of rising seniors losing their on-campus housing in April has progressed – or regressed rather [...]
