Drexel University has
already taken action to reduce the feeling of crowding at the university
through construction projects that have already been completed, but the
university is not quite done yet. Construction has already begun on new
academic buildings and a new residence hall/shopping center.
The three projects
currently underway are the new Lebow Business Center, the URBN Center, and the
Chestnut Street Project. The Lebow Business Center, a 12 story, $92 million
project, will be the new home for the business school. It will include 5 levels
of classrooms and countless numbers faculty offices, seminar rooms, and group
study rooms. The building will also include two lecture halls of 100 and 300
students (Student Life and Administrative Services). The addition of all of the
classrooms and group study areas, on top of just having a new, modern looking
building on campus, will dilute class sizes and make the campus more appealing
visually.
The URBN Center is the
new home for Drexel’s Westphal College of Media Arts and Design. The former
Institute of Scientific Information building is being transformed over the next
year to house new studios and design labs. Mad Dragon Records, the student run
music label on campus, will also be relocating to this location. Like Lebow,
this building will be home to many new faculty offices and classrooms (Student
Life and Administrative Services). Moving CoMAD from Nesbitt to the URBN Center not
only gives it a new home. The move to the URBN Center also expands the space
that CoMAD has to work with and gives students in the college a new home that
they can call their own.
The Chestnut Street
Project will bring retail, restaurants, and, most importantly, housing to the
campus. “The building design
will also include a 19-story residential tower at the corner of Chestnut and
32nd streets…The development includes a 14,800-square-foot
community center with space for residence life operations and student amenities
that include a social lounge with gaming area, a fitness center furnished with
modern workout equipment, meeting space, a theater and laundry facilities”
(Student Life and Administrative Services). The apartments solve the immediate
housing problems on campus, and the community center solves non-housing related
overcrowding problems.
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