[LUnpretty11]

Cliff Notes: Expansion 2020 - no football stadium expansion

Edit: Page 51 for those who want to see 2020 Campus Plan

[LUnpretty11]

Cliff Notes: Expansion 2020 - no football stadium expansion

Edit: Page 51 for those who want to see 2020 Campus Plan

Edit Edit: Page 53 for 2030 Campus Plan - we get a second tower to reflect current tower at Williams Stadium. Only 14 more years!

[ballah09]

wow Liberty is going to look amazing in a couple of years and the new engineering school is going to look beautiful (page 91).

as for the football expansion, yeah well. I say just move the hockey team to ncaa and call it a day and give the fans and alumni something else to look forward to. I think the acha is creating a scholarship division anyway so.

[badger74]

My computer downloaded it in a couple seconds. Thanks Comcast Now I really miss being able to print huge files for free at work.

[rhezick]

So I was reading an article on WSET discussing how VDOT wants input on dealing with the route 29 corridor. In it, they reference the Campbell County – Route 29 Corridor Planning Effort Findings Report found here:

http://www.virginiadot.org/projects/res ... ummary.pdf

I breezed through it (forgive me if this was already brought up), but read an interesting statement. wonder what those plans were, and what they will be?

East of Route 29 and north of Russell Woods Road, Liberty University owns about 400 to 500 acres of
land. The property was previously rezoned for commercial activity, but plans for commercial
development fell though. It is likely that new development plans will formulated, with groundwork
initiated sometime during the next five to ten years.

[LUconn]

There was going to be an outdoor mall there. Then a lot of stuff happened.

[alabama24]

I can now confirm that all dorm circle dorms EXCEPT 7 are history. Tons of dirt (red clay) is being moved to a valley on top of the mountain near LUCOM.

[Humble_Opinion]

I can now confirm that all dorm circle dorms EXCEPT 7 are history. Tons of dirt (red clay) is being moved to a valley on top of the mountain near LUCOM.

Must be prep work for the graduate campus.

[alabama24]

At one point I heard that the property was donated to some county organization (emergency response?)... but their was a time limit involved (build it by X or lose the property).

[ATrain]

Looks like about half of the Hill dorms are slated for replacement, but my first dorm, Dorm 17, still exists in the 2030 plan.

[Sly Fox]

Liberty expands athletics master plan with five big projects underway on campus


Construction of the $25 million Academic and Performance Center at Liberty University on July 1, one of several athletics-related projects underway on the Lynchburg campus. Photo by Lathan Goumas.

Posted: Monday, July 4, 2016 8:39 pm
Damien Sordelett

The view from Mickey Guridy’s second-floor office at Williams Stadium showcases three of the more prominent athletic facilities on Liberty University’s campus: Osborne Stadium, Liberty Baseball Stadium and Liberty Softball Stadium.

There is another facility underway that Guridy and the rest of the athletic staff can see taking shape every day: the Academic and Performance Center, which will help bring every sport together in one central location for academic, strength and conditioning, sports medicine and training purposes.

Click Here for Full Story

[soccer7]

Does any one know what the performance center being built on the back of the basketball practice courts is for?

[Cider Jim]

Soccer7, the APC is located behind the soccer stadium.

Academic and Performance Center

Liberty University’s new 60,000-square-foot Academic and Performance Center (APC), currently under construction next to the Liberty Baseball Stadium, will integrate study areas with state-of-the-art rehabilitation and strength and conditioning facilities.

“Our student-athletes have succeeded at an extremely high level,” said Jeff Barber, Liberty’s director of athletics. “The new APC will be a physical sign to our recruits and their families of the importance of academics at Liberty and will show that we are committed to giving them every tool they need to be successful in the classroom.”

The building, situated behind Osbourne Stadium and the Matthes-Hopkins Track Complex near the new Freedom Tower, is scheduled to open in the summer of 2017. Approximately one-third of the space will be reserved for academic offices, tutoring centers, and study halls. It will also feature an Olympic sport weight room and space for short- and long-term rehabilitation of Liberty’s NCAA Division I athletes.

http://www.liberty.edu/flames/index.cfm?PID=33357

[alabama24]

Does any one know what the performance center being built on the back of the basketball practice courts is for?

Cider may have answered your question, but there IS construction happening currently behind the vines. I have no idea what it is, or even if it is anything major. It may just be a patio for grilling Chanticleer.

[Cider Jim]

Commons 3 (dorm) will be going up soon, but I don't know its exact future location. Isn't there as small LAKE behind the Vines Center?

[UVALibertyFan]

The addition on the back of Vines is a weight room.

http://etrakit.lynchburgva.gov/etrakit3 ... 6012903299

[soccer7]

Thank you for the link. I saw the construction on the Liberty Performace tweeter page. Interesting that they are putting a weight room there. I thought they already had one in the Vines.

[alabama24]

Commons 3 (dorm) will be going up soon, but I don't know its exact future location. Isn't there as small LAKE behind the Vines Center?

Cider - From the MASSIVE .pdf linked to earlier in this thread, Commons 3 appears to have a new cafeteria attached. The link in a couple posts above this one gives a glimpse of the new cafeteria. It is my understanding that the dorm will be connected to the cafeteria somehow. It will have ground to ceiling windows overlooking the library and lake. Pretty cool.

I think they are tearing out stuff from dorm 7. I need to steal a brick.

[alabama24]

The addition on the back of Vines is a weight room.

http://etrakit.lynchburgva.gov/etrakit3 ... 6012903299

Yeah! Thanks for the link. I don't think this was in the big PDF above.

[alabama24]

From the fish wrap: http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/g ... ac102.html

If anyone has an LU link to the map mentioned in the article, that would be appreciated. The one on the N&A website is too small to read.

[alabama24]

Here it is: http://www.liberty.edu/media/1615/maste ... r-Plan.pdf

[rogers3]

Nothing new there... Same plans we saw a while back, including the silly talk about no more basketball in the Vines. I do wonder if there is a bit of movement on that new bridge. Some of the other projects that are noted as being in the future are well on the way to completion.

[alabama24]

Nothing new there... Same plans we saw a while back

Nope. There is new stuff. The graduate campus in Campbell, Co is fleshed out more, for example.

[rogers3]

Nope. There is new stuff. The graduate campus in Campbell, Co is fleshed out more, for example.

Last year, you made some comments on the plan.

Some observations:
1. The road between the stadium and layhay/green hall is eliminated. Added is a "pedestrian greenway."
2. Four more parking garages are included (two at green hall, one a new sports arena, one on east campus near tunnel)
3. New residence halls at old intramural fields (where band marches now)
4. The south campus chapel moved to where the old softball field used to be.
5. A large structure is being shown by the bridge to the airport... but it isnt labeled. (BJ - send an email to the President.)
6. The Tower is listed, but no structure is really shown. Are these from before the announcement of the School of Divinity?

Well they scratched the chapel and the removal of the road between the stadium and LaHaye, but other observations are pretty much the same. Oh, they added a name to that big building.

I'm sure there are some new elements, but it certainly has nothing that surprises anyone. Talks of facilities for grad programs has been around. It really looks like the plans we have seen for the last couple of years with no edits and a couple additions on the periphery. Call me crazy...or just a nitpicker!

[Cider Jim]

If Meyer & Dunton could fill up the Vines Center with the talent they had (and a much smaller university enrollment), I'm still confident the Coach McKay can do the same with the talent he's bringing in to a university with a student body of 15,000.