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Lewis & Clark   College is planning to build the 50,000-sf Howard Center for Social Sciences on the college’s Portland campus. Housing classrooms, faculty offices, Social Science departmental facilities, and breakout space for student and faculty interaction, the center will replace outdated single-story classrooms. Located on the western edge of the academic quad, the building will continue the College’s progress towards meeting national space standards. Construction is scheduled to begin in January 2003, with completion expected in August 2004.

The University of Michigan began building the $33-million, 99,000-gsf Commons Building in November 2001and expects construction to reach completion in November 2003. Part of the Palmer Drive development, the facility will house a 140-seat lecture hall, conference and meeting rooms, a large, divisible banquet hall, a public deli/café, a retail convenience store, and offices for the Department of Public Safety, the Bioinformatics Department, and the adjacent University Central Power Plant. The building will consist of six floors and a mechanical penthouse.

Lewis & Clark College is renovating the historic Albany Hall to house administrative space, offices, meeting and conference rooms, a café, and other academic, support, and social functions for faculty and students. Comprised of 14,700 sf distributed on three floors, the building includes a daylight basement. Built in 1929, the facility will become Albany Center and will provide temporary space for the college’s Bicentennial activities from 2003 to 2006, as well as office and classroom swing space to support the Howard Center construction project.

Lewis & Clark College is engaged in a comprehensive residence hall improvement program scheduled for phased construction and occupancy from 2001 to 2020. The project will complete the south campus and will expand on-campus student housing from approximately 1000 to 1400 residences. Many modifications to existing residence halls will also be made. The first phase of the project consists of three two- and three-story houses of 56 beds each for junior and senior class students in combinations of two and four-bedroom suites. Each house will have common social spaces.

The University of Michigan is connecting Mason Hall and Haven Hall with a $38-million, 213,000-gsf renovation project. Eight stories will be added to Haven Hall, the interior space renovated, and the main entry demolished with an addition extending to the south end of Mason Hall. Haven Hall, with new mechanical, electrical, and telecommunications systems, will house new office space for History, Political Science, American Culture, and the Center for African and Afro-American Studies.