Summer Projects Enhance Campus Infrastructure
The most notable summer projects will be to Chick-fil-A in the Student Union Building and the dining area in Ryle Hall. Chick-fil-A will be expanded from an express to a full-scale restaurant with an expanded menu including kale chips and mac and cheese. After the reopen in August, all purchases for Chick-fil-A will be made at the Chick-fil-A counter.
In Ryle Hall, the dining and services spaces will see new paint, lighting and ceilings, along with potential changes to the booths. The food service area will have refreshed solid surface tray areas and sneeze guards. Planned upgrades in the kitchen area include new warmers, reach-in coolers, steamers, dish machine, milk machines, soft serve ice cream machine and a hard ice cream chest/freezer.
McClain Hall, Pickler Memorial Library and Magruder Hall will all receive roof work, as will the west main entry to Missouri Hall. There may be occasional constructions traffic in these areas until August.
Mechanical work will take place in Pershing Building with the addition of air conditioning in the arena. Magruder Hall and Pickler Memorial Library will also see some mechanical work during the summer.
The parking lot behind Barnett Hall will be used for boiler work in that building.
Areas around Blanton-Nason-Brewer Hall and the McKinney Center will be inaccessible for parts of the summer. The annex on the north side of BNB will be removed, as will the McKinney Center. The grass area and walks from the south entrance of the Kirk Building to the walk on the north side of Violette Hall will be closed off most of the summer.
The east-west walk between McKinney Center and Kirk Building and Kirk Memorial will be removed and replaced. The north-south walk on the east side of McKinney Center and Kirk Building should remain open but will see occasional construction traffic from the Dobson Hall parking lot. The area of demo for the BNB annex will be contained to the area between the walk and BNB, as much as possible.
