CMU Unveils 10-Yr Plan

Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University wants to construct a new home for its Tepper business school, expand Heinz College and undertake other campus work that includes turning two Forbes Avenue traffic lanes into bicycle paths.  There would be a pedestrian bridge, University Center would be expanded and a new hotel on school land would be constructed.  Those are some of the projects in a proposed 10-year university master plan that campus administrators are preparing to submit later this month to the city.

The master plan is aimed at supporting university growth by both enhancing the existing core campus and by developing underutilized properties purchased by Carnegie Mellon along Forbes between Craig Street and Morewood Avenue.  The plan also recognizes that Carnegie Mellon's northern frontier, traditionally considered to be Forbes, has in fact become Fifth Avenue, thanks to university expansion, and that Forbes runs through what is now the middle of campus.

Projects high on the priority list:

•  A new nano-biomedical-energy research facility to be built next to Wean and Hamerschlag halls.
•  Moving the Tepper School of Business from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration building and Posner Hall onto part of what is now the Morewood parking lot on the north side of Forbes across from Hamburg Hall.
•  An expansion of Heinz College to include classrooms, possibly an auditorium and informal meeting space.
•  A new building for alumni affairs and other administrative offices on the north side of Forbes across from the campus cut that would require moving some fraternity houses to a nearby site.
•  Moving fitness facilities from the aging Skibo Gym to an expanded University Center and transforming Skibo into an updated headquarters for campus athletics.
•  A Margaret Morrison Hall expansion to support the College of Fine Arts.
•  Take a traffic lane in either direction on the part of Forbes running through campus and turning those lanes into bike paths.
•  Extending the east-west campus pathway and improving pedestrian access between Forbes and Fifth by developing a new sidewalk and bike path along Morewood.
•  A new hotel (operated by an outside party) south of Forbes near Craig St.



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