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<\/a>\u201cWe\u2019ll do $150 million in construction in the next two years,\u201d Burnett told a group of 60 at the University Center Theater. \u201cThat\u2019s the same amount that we\u2019ve done in the last ten since I\u2019ve been vice chancellor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burnett, Susan Szpyrka, vice chancellor, Administration and Finance, and Gary Reynolds, executive director, Facilities Services, gave an overview of current and future projects during the October Chancellor\u2019s Forum.<\/p>\n
Reynolds and Szpyrka tag-teamed the presentation with Reynolds giving updates on buildings that are funded through tuition and state revenues and Szpyrka highlighting those projects built with monies generated by rent and user fees.<\/p>\n
Lane Center for Academic Health Sciences<\/b><\/p>\n
The Lane Center for Academic Health Sciences, the first UCCS building on North Nevada Avenue, is on schedule with move-in planned in Jan. 2014. Official opening ceremonies are planned for February, Reynolds said.<\/p>\n
The Lane Center will be home to clinics operated by the Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences, the CU Aging Center, the Gerontology Center, the Trauma Health and Hazards Center as well as two non-UCCS entities, a senior clinic operated by Peak Vista Community Health Centers and space for the CU School of Medicine to operate a third and fourth year clinical branch for medical students. About 20 students will complete two years of medical education at the Anschutz Medical Campus and arrive at UCCS in 2016.<\/p>\n
Student Housing and Parking<\/b><\/p>\n
Szpyrka highlighted the summer completion of Copper and Eldora, new student housing buildings that brought 192 beds in suite-style layouts that opened this fall as well as an expansion to the Lodge dining facilities.<\/p>\n
But it was the prospect of more parking and more student housing that got Szpyrka excited.<\/p>\n
A 1,234-space parking garage will open at least partially by March, Szyprka said. That site on the western edge of main campus is marked by a large construction crane. That garage will be topped by intramural fields and its partial completion will make way for an expansion of the Alpine Village student housing area.<\/p>\n
On the site that is now surface parking for students living in Alpine Village, parking lot 9, a 510-bed Village at Alpine Valley is planned with about 300 beds constructed by fall 2015 and 210 more beds planned for Fall 2016. A new dining hall dubbed the Roaring Fork is also planned.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of these buildings are named after rivers,\u201d Szpyrka said. \u201cWe have our ski resorts, we have our mountains, and now we have our rivers. I guess we\u2019ll start naming these after plains or I\u2019m not sure where we\u2019ll go next.\u201d<\/p>\n