August 30th, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in On Campus Development
UMD’s planned south mall is slowly unfolding. When complete it will provide a pedestrian axis all the way from Anne Arundel Hall down to the southern end of Van Munching Hall, through Commons 1,2,5, and 6 and across to Hartford Hall in the Washington Quad. Two portions of the phased project are underway right now.
Washington [...]
August 30th, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in Commons 7 and 8, Housing
With On-Campus waitlists surging past 1500, modified triples and lounges once again becoming common practice, and the memory of hundreds of rising seniors kicked out of housing last semester, the University is pursuing a 2 building, 400 bed public private partnership in the vicinity of Mowatt Lane Garage. While these buildings will do little to [...]
August 28th, 2007 | by Chris Ellepola | published in Bicycles, Transportation
A newly revitalized committee dedicated to bicycle issues could bring new attention to bikes on campus in College Park. After several years of inactivity, a newly hired graduate research assistant in UMD’s Department of Transportation is revitalizing the group. Gulsah Akar, an engineering graduate student, recently held a meeting for the group spelling out his [...]
August 27th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in Purple Line
An article in today’s Washington Post explains some of the hurdles facing the Purple Line – and why Maryland has opted to wait until next year to apply to the Federal Transit Administration for funding:
Unlike federal highway funds, which states receive based on a formula and may spend as they wish, money for new transit [...]
August 22nd, 2007 | by Chris Ellepola | published in Housing
A public forum will be held today to discuss “mansionization” issues in Prince George’s County (sorry about the late notice, we just learned about this). The forum will be held at
7 pm in the Prince George’s County Parks and Recreation Administration Building, located at 6600 Kenilworth Avenue in Riverdale
Mansionization is the phenomenon characterized by [...]
August 22nd, 2007 | by David Daddio | published in Site Announcements
We’re proud to announce the unveiling of the latest version of our latest development map. This map builds upon the success of our first map, with the easy updatability of the Google’s recently introduced “My Maps.” You’ll notice that we’ve color coded the project pins and added polygons for larger scale projects (like East Campus [...]
August 22nd, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in East Campus, On Campus Development
Yesterday University Vice President for Administrative Affairs Doug Duncan released the list of members of of the East Campus community steering committee that will be participating in a series of topical public meetings this fall. Three of the 40 members are students, and 17 are affiliated with the University of Maryland. The newly update schedule [...]
August 20th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in Businesses, Downtown
While we’re busy dreaming about the new businesses that could come to the mixed use buildings on Route One and East Campus, for the time being most College Park residents are stuck with what we’ve got in downtown. Downtown contains over 70 storefront businesses offering tacos, transistors, tea, and textbooks.
The downtown guide includes the phone [...]
