Contact: Maridith Geuder
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A Sept. 15 public meeting at Mississippi State will provide an overview of future directions for campus development.
The 5:30-7:30 p.m. informal presentation in the Club Level of Davis Wade Stadium is the result of months of work by the Campus Planning, Development and Advisory Committee commissioned by MSU President Mark Keenum. Approximately 20 faculty, staff and student representatives composed the volunteer committee.
Members of the campus and local community are invited to the meeting, said Roger Baker, campus master planner. "We will present several concepts and get feedback from those attending," he explained, adding that there will be refreshments furnished.
Working with professional consultants that included Meridian-based Luke Peterson Kaye Architects and Sasaki Associates, a national urban and landscape design firm, the group developed proposals for promoting safe campus mobility and improved sustainability, Baker said.
"We considered traffic that includes pedestrian, vehicular, mass transit, and gameday, as well as the locations of future buildings and infrastructure needs," he noted.
Sasaki Associates has worked with a host of universities across the nation, ranging from Amherst College and Boston University to the University of North Carolina and Purdue University, another land-grant.
"Planning of this sort helps provide a vision for growth and redevelopment on campus," Baker explained. "It encourages thinking decades in advance. We hope that we have a roadmap for the next 20-50 years."