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November 25, 2008, 01:13 PM ET
SUNY-Buffalo Plans Major Growth for Three Campuses
The State University of New York at Buffalo is planning tremendous growth, but also hopes to improve and enhance green and public spaces around its three campuses. (SUNY image)
The State University of New York at Buffalo has released a draft of a plan to redesign its campus. The plan includes adding or renovating seven million square feet of space (of which 70 percent will be new construction) to accommodate an additional 10,000 students and 2,500 faculty and staff members.
The plan, called UB 2020, involves moving around various schools and departments at the university, with the three campuses having distinctive purposes. The North Campus would feature the undergraduate programs and would grow from 6.6 million square feet to 9.9 million square feet. The South Campus would feature the professional schools: law, management, architecture, and so on. The Downtown Campus would focus on the medical programs and would grow from 500,000 square feet to 4.1 million square feet.
Much of the plan involves renovating historic buildings that Buffalo owns. Even as Buffalo plans all this growth, university officials say UB 2020 would also focus on improving sustainability efforts, energy efficiency, and transportation. The plan was designed by the firms Beyer Blinder Belle, DEGW, Foit-Albert Associates, Andropogon Associates, VFA, and Buckhurst Fish and Jacquemart.
The university is asking the public to comment on the plan through Flickr.
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