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NEWS
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 30. 2011 // PAGE 5
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Construction paves way
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Natalie Allison
Senior Reporter
Though hammering won’t stop
anytime soon at some construction
sites around Elon University’s campus,
other projects are running on schedule
and new additions will be unveiled as
soon as next year. University building
projects to construct on-campus housing
options and a renovation in Moseley
Center to house the Career Center began
this year, as well as construction of Elon
Community Church’s fellowship hall.
Elon University construction projects
The Global Neighborhood, a five-
building residential complex and dining
hall, will take the place of the existing
Harper Center and former Story Center.
Story Center, comprised of Chandler,
Maynard and Colclough residence
halls, was demolished in August so
construction for a new dining hall, which
the university announced would be ready
in January 2013, could begin.
Neil Bromilow, director of planning,
design and construction management,
said after this year, no students would
be assigned to live in Harper Center,
which includes Moffitt and Staley
residence halls. The four new residence
hall buildings that will be constructed
in Harper Center's place will be ready for
occupancy in fall 2014.
“They will be very similar to the
new Colonnades C, D and E buildings,”
Bromilow said of the Global Neighborhood
residence buildings. “You will see suites,
some singles, split quads and similar
patterns to Colonnades housing.”
Residence halls in the Global
Neighborhood will provide 600 beds,
housing approximately the same number
of students as the area’s previous
dormitories. Bromilow said the four
buildings would most likely be a mixture
of three and four floors.
Although the Global Neighborhood
will primarily house first year students,
The Station at Mill Point, a village of on-
campus townhouses for upperclassmen,
is being constructed on Fire House Field
at the corner of Williamson Avenue and
Ball Park Road.
Construction is currently on schedule
for the complex’s 2S buildings, which
are scheduled for completion in summer
2012, Bromilow said. Starting in April
2012, approximately five buildings will
be finished each month through August.
The townhouses will feature single
bedrooms and bathrooms with a
common living room, kitchen, dining
area and washing machines and dryers
in each unit. One of the buildings will
house amenities and social functions for
the complex’s residents.
“It’s not going to be like Danieley
Center or the Oaks where it’s all
uniform," Bromilow said. “These will be
consciously different looking buildings
on the exterior, and not just the color.
Your basic bedroom is going to be same,
but how you live and how it works is
going to be significantly different. It will
give the ability to live on campus like
you’re off campus.”
A model unit of the townhouses
will be available for students to view
before housing registration for next
year, Bromilow said, and several of the
buildings have already gone up.
“What you're seeing now are a couple
of the same type of units going up,” he
said. “If you look closer, you’ll see that
there’s a smaller one here, a porch on
the front over there, a center entrance on
another. They’re different.”
Elon University’s Office of Career
Services, currently housed in Duke, will
soon be a part of the Student Professional
Development Center to be located in
Moseley Center. The office is scheduled
to open January 2012 and will occupy
the former campus bookstore space.
Construction has been ongoing since the
campus shop moved to the Elon Town
Center in August.
“The space used to be a large, open
bookstore and will now be a series of
offices, meeting rooms and interview
rooms with very professional, business
like decor,” Bromilow said. “It’s several
thousand square feet, so bigger than
what they have now. Significantly bigger.”
Elon Community Church addition
Elon Community Church is
constructing an auxiliary facility across
Williamson Avenue from the southwest
part of Elon's campus. The building
will include three new classrooms
for the church, a kitchen, an elevator
and handicap accessible restrooms in
addition to a large space for events.
“The main thing we're providing is a
needed fellowship hall facility, a place for
a multi-purpose room with a stage as well
as a full commercial kitchen,” said the
Rev. Randy Orwig, senior pastor of Elon
Community Church. "We’re really excited
about that.”
Orwig said the church currently has
limited accessibility for the disabled.
Individuals using wheel chairs and
walkers to go downstairs in the church
must go out the front door, walk around
the side to the lower level and enter that
way, he said.
“We definitely have accessibility
problems,” Orwig said. This expansion
will transform the whole building and
make it more accessible.”
The church also wanted to open its
doors for students and people in the
community to use its facility, from
exercise groups to wedding receptions
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Officials at the Elon Community Church hope to have the expansion of their facilities completed
in time for Easter Sunday next year. Construction was delayed but is now back on track.
and performing arts programs for the
university, Orwig said.
“We consider ourselves a community
church and know there will be a lot
of community groups coming and
student groups and organizations using
it because of our strong ties to the
university,” he said. “So the building will
be used for a myriad of activities."
Although there was an initial
possibility that the building would be
completed in late January, Orwig said
problems with the ground delayed the
project, but it is back on track and the
church is now hoping to be using the
facility by this Easter Sunday April 8.
“We are on budget and, so far, we’re
staying in the parameters of our contract,"
he said. “We’ve been able to save some
money here, spend a little money there.
Moser, Mayer and Phoenix (Architecture)
are helping us keep a close eye on it and
RESOLUTE Building Company is doing a
great job so far.”
A CAMPUS IN PROGRESS: TIMELINE OF COMPLETION
JANUARY 2012
Student Professional
Development Center in
Moseley, which will
house Career Services.
APRIL 2012
Elon Community Church
fellowship hall facility,
annexed to the current
church building.
AUGUST 2012
The Station at Mill
Point, located on the
former Fire House
Field.
JANUARY 2013
Moseley dining hall
addition, to be located
at the site of the fomier
Stoiy Center.
AUGUST 2014
The Global Neighborhood
residential complex, to be
located at the site of the
former Harper Center.