Reallignment Of Perimeter Road
1999 March
Work scheduled to begin by August Bohl Contracting Co. of Glenmont on Master Plan called for realignment of Perimeter Road (now University Drive). The $3.5 million project will shift the road west from the I-90 entrance to Tricentennial Drive. Included with be the reconstruction of Colonial Parking Lot and the construction of a new parking lot south of Colonial Quad and west of Social Sciences, doubling the size of the Health Center parking lot, and improvements to entrances to the campus. The architects of the Perimeter Road project are Clough Harbor & Associates of Colonie. Included in the planned work is the demolition of the University Police Department Building to the west of the Academic Podium (originally the construction headquarters for Edward Durell Stone & Company's on-site supervisors of the construction of the Uptown Campus) and the construction of a new facility on the east side of the Academic Podium. This project represents the first step in carrying out the University's $130 million dollar , five-year Master Plan. The Hillier Group of New York City is already designing the proposed 160,000 sq. ft. Life Sciences Building to be located on the east end of the Academic Podium.
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Christine Hanson McKnight, "Master Plan Work on Perimeter Road Begins," University Update, February 10, 1999, p. 1