<p>Here is FSU's draft Master Plan for expansion and some building replacement.</p>
<p>Caution - this is a very large PDF file (some 106 MB): <a href="http://vpfa.fsu.edu/sua/Master_Plan_GOP-95.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://vpfa.fsu.edu/sua/Master_Plan_GOP-95.pdf</a></p>
<p>Can you give us the highlights so we don't have to download such a big file?
Thanks!</p>
<p>Some highlights:</p>
<p>The College of Business appears to be getting a new building in place of the old one.
Many buildings will be renovated.
The FSU Circus will be moving to near Gaines Street.
The tennis courts are moving to near the Seminole Golf Course (near the new swimming facility).
The College of Criminology appears to be getting a new building.
The FSU track may be moved.
There will be a new parking garage near the stadium.
One of the football practice fields may be enclosed.</p>
<p>More later as I can go through the pdf.</p>
<p>The plan is dated May 11, 2007 and is 373 pages long.
More detail:</p>
<p>"Master Plan Overview
The Florida State University (FSU) is one of the premier institutions of higher learning in the State of Florida. Located in Tallahassee, Florida (see Figure MP.I0 ), FSU's Main Campus currently covers approximately 460 acres in area and serves over 37,000 students plus faculty and staff who are housed in over 5 million square feet of buildings. This Master Plan anticipates a student population in ten years of 42,000 students and 6,000 plus faculty and staff. These will be housed in approximately 7.5 million square feet of buildings located on an expanded primary campus of around 593 acres.
The Master Plan as represented on the rendered site plan, Figure MP.l, shows diagrammatically how the campus will be developed to meet these requirements in accordance with the planning parameters of the Goals, Objectives, and Policies reported herein. This graphic portrays the FSU campus after a lO-year build-out. The intermediate steps required to achieve the FSU Master Plan are depicted in two intermediate stages for the planning period years 1-5 and the
years 6-10, described at the end of this overview, in two phased-development implementation figures, Figure MP.4 and MP.5, and their associated tables. Table MP.l.l lists the projects shown on Figure MP.4 and Table MP.2.1 lists the projects shown on Figure MP.5. See Element 14 Capital Improvements for more information about the projects. The existing campus reflects an urban density that is the second highest among the State's public universities. In the mid 1990's, the Legislature endorsed and funded a major land acquisition program to expand the campus boundaries. Although the funds have proven inadequate to achieve the entire acquisition plan, much has been accomplished. The Master Plan has adopted the target borders. The proposed new area of about 593 acres closely matches the proportionate sizing required to maintain today's ratio of students per acre as the campus population grows." </p>
<p>Diviney Residence Hall will be demolished and a new hall will be built in its place in 2014-15. There will be new classroom buildings. Wildwood Hall will be expanded. The Thagard Med center will be expanded, the Sandels Building will be expanded and the Union will be expanded. There will be more academic buildings.</p>
<p>The Southwest Campus area - towards the University Center complex - will not be built out as some of it is in the 100-year floodplain. </p>
<p>"The Master Plan supports continued development of three major open spaces. The first one is the new green or lawn running north-south in the middle of the new medical school and science quad. Similar to Landis Green it provides an organizing vista and a community- or neighborhood-building armature as well as gathering space for the academic community. The second major open space was formerly called "The FSU Commons" in previous editions of the master plan. Informal in shape and feeling, the intent was to connect the University Center and the new campus node at the intersection of Call Street and Woodward Avenues, called the Woodward / Call Plaza, with a park-like pedestrian way to better integrate the University Center with the main body of the campus. This greenspace is in an area subject to flooding but with the continuing demand for parking, part of the greenspace has been committed to parking lots and the band practice field developed into an all-weather athletic field shared with the band. The connection to the University Center is still being developed but in a less deliberate manner. The third space is the Student Life Mall along the closed section of Woodward from Call Street to Park Avenue. This urban style pedestrian street joins the east (historic) and west (modern) areas of campus like a seam or a zipper and provides a gathering place for students and activities supportive of campus life. Several other smaller quads or courtyards are proposed as new buildings and zones are developed. Another major open area includes the belt of land between Gaines Street and St. Augustine Street, which is dedicated initially to recreational facilities and surface parking (the exact extent of which may be dependent on the final determination by the City of the Gaines Street corridor configuration). This edge substantially improves the image along the new southern edge of the campus, which is also the primary route between downtown and the airport."</p>
<p>There will be a Student Life Mall centered around Woodward Street.</p>
<p>"The continued redevelopment of Woodward Avenue as the location for student-related functions and services is one of the priorities of the Campus Master Plan. With the completion of the outer traffic loop system, a portion of Woodward Avenue was closed to through traffic and a short stretch of pedestrian mall was created between Call Street and Park Avenue. The accompanying sketches and photographs depict the development concept and the reality achieved so far. The Mall will eventually extend south toward Jefferson Street. The buildings along the mall will house student organizations, student services, appropriate retail, and support functions. The Student Life Mall is ideally located at both the geographic center and traffic crossroads of the campus with parking garages at either end."</p>
<p>Acquisition Zones</p>
<p>"It is crucial that FSU acquire additional land to provide room for sustained growth while maintaining the current sense of density that is a major asset of the campus. There are no more empty or undeveloped sites for buildings. To the east and south of the campus there are significant areas contiguous to FSU that are clearly in transition and suitable for redevelopment. The large shaded area in the diagram extends from Copeland Street eastward to Macomb Street and southward from Jefferson Street to Gaines Street. A few scattered tracts have already been acquired but considerably more funding will be required to obtain adequate amounts of land to aggregate into useful parcels. Two smaller areas to the north, 1) along the "town-gown" strip of Tennessee Street and 2) in the northwest corner at Tennessee Street and Stadium Drive, should be acquired to complete the landholdings in a useful
configuration on those edges."</p>
<p>New Campus Quadrangles:</p>
<p>"There are two significant zones suitable for redevelopment as major academic quadrangles. One, the former site of the Florida State University School, is already being redeveloped as a new medical and science quad. Located along Call Street at the Stadium Drive edge, the Medical/Science Quad is home for the new Medical School, Life Science, and Psychology
Buildings, and a new 1,500 car garage. Other sites are available around the quad and someday in the future, if the Mike Long Track is moved, another major zone will be appended to this concentration of scientific teaching and research facilities. </p>
<p>The second new quad will be developed on the current site of the Mendenhall Maintenance Complex in the heart of the campus at the intersection of the Call Street pedestrianway and the Woodward Avenue Mall. The Mendenhall site is an ideal location for northward expansion of the Student Life Quad in its convergence with the academic corridor along Call Street. Serious attention must be give to this location to insure an appropriate significant
architectural presence is created here."</p>
<p>Enhanced Formal Entrances</p>
<p>The historic zone of the campus is defined in part by two picturesque gateways that mark the edges of the old campus and also symbolically suggest "portals to knowledge". As the campus has incrementally grown, the edges and the entryways to the campus have become non-uniform and unclear. With the accomplishment of the Outer Loop, the Plan establishes
four major gateways to symbolically proclaim the University's domain: East, South, West, and North. On the East side of the campus, the dramatic brick and wrought iron gate at Westcott Plaza is one of the most picturesque settings on campus. </p>
<p>The ensemble of the gate, the fountain in the plaza, and the facade of Westcott Building form the most universally recognized image of FSU. As the eastern edge of the campus expands from Copeland Street to Macomb Street there is an opportunity to make a strong entry statement along the approach to Westcott and the East Gate on College Avenue. Low-scale development and generous setbacks will enhance the ceremonial "front door" to FSU."</p>
<p>These are some details and snippets from the Master Plan. Hope it helps...it will give you an idea how throughly the planning for FSU goes.</p>
<p>Parent2noles I remember looking at it ahile back, I found it intresting I really like urban planning.</p>
<p>The most interesting parts I found were, the destruction of deviney, the second phase of wildwood. Expanding carothers and building another multipurpose classroom, also expansion of the union.</p>
<p>In terms of acquistion of land I think the logical place to expand the campus would be the area across tennessee street next to degraff theres enough room there too build a few more buildings. And also the land near the IM Fields.</p>
<p>Thanks for the information. They definitely need to replace Deviney and that is a great idea to get some land to expand when necessary. It is nice to see they have a long range plan to continue to improve the university.</p>
<p>A bit more - the areas within the 100-year floodplain will be used as low-risk areas like walkways, parks and parking lots.</p>
<p>University Center Connection</p>
<p>"The Master Plan proposes a major pedestrian connection between the University Center and the intersection of Call Street, the Student Union, and the Woodward Avenue Plaza. In contrast to the more formal connections elsewhere on campus, this walkway has a more informal, park-like aesthetic. After leaving the major pedestrian crossroads of the Call Street and Woodward Avenue promenades, the walkway passes through what will eventually be the redeveloped quadrangle where the Maintenance Complex now stands and then passes along the Leach Center to the major diagonal axis between the University Center and the Woodward-Call intersection. At that point, the walkway will wind around the redeveloped all-weather athletic and band practice field, the new parking lots, and the lowlands where the Circus currently sits. The walkway provides access to the athletic/recreation and parking area west of Chieftain to the new Wedge quadrangle, east of Wildwood Drive, and to the Circus (until it relocates). Most of the park lies within the 1OO-year flood plain."</p>
<p>I am very impressed - the plan will greatly improve what is perhaps already the most beautiful university campus in Florida. Building around 100+ year old oak trees cannot be easy.</p>
<p>Very interesting reading! Sounds like the FSU administration has Vision. Thank you for posting this P2N</p>