Boston University is doing everything that it can to ensure that
its facilities are up to date with the lofty expectations that any
world-class University would have. Just recently they announced
their plans to either build or renovate various plots of their one
hundred and twelve acre territory spread throughout the city.
In The Fenway and Kenmore
areas, the University is aiming to embark on nine different
projects all within the next ten years. One of these proposals
include a new eleven story dorm for five hundred and forty-three
students that will cozy up next to the other newer towers behind
the Agganis Arena. Other goals that are necessary to achieve is to
put a three hundred and forty car parking lot underground at
Babcock Field, the renovation of the over ninety-year-old Miles
Standish Hall that houses six hundred and sixty students, building
an eleven story academic building from the ground up that will be
at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Granby Street. Finally,
another development worth mentioning is the renovation of the 1960s
built School of Law on Commonwealth Avenue in addition to adding
125,000 square feet to the facility.
Due to the fact that none of these above or any of the total
nine plans for construction have released any concrete dates for an
expected completion nor figures for how much this master plan will
cost, it seems inevitable that many of these will take a
considerable amount of time, up to a decade