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Wesleyan University Campus Master
Plan Presentation to Facilities Working Group
December 10, 2002 Presentation to Masterplan
Executive Committee April 13, 2005 Updated for
Masterplan Executive Committee September 25, 2007
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Residential Life

• Attract and retain the best students
• Continue to improve the campus life experience
  including the supporting facilities
• Strengthen the learning community

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How do we meet these goals?

• On- campus living is integral to the essence of
  the university mission
• Previous residential life studies in 1987, 1992
  and 1997 confirm these goals
• Students should live on campus
• Close to the center
• Progressively independent living
• opportunities
• Promote a sense of community
• Facilities should be affordably
• maintainable

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What is needed?

• More housing close to the center of campus
• Good quality facilities
• Efficient and cost-effective
• Student social spaces
• Variety
• Programs that promote responsibility

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Opportunities for Progressively Independent
Living

• Residence hall doubles to maximize community
• Residence hall singles and program houses for
  community with more privacy
• Apartments for developing life skills
• Independent housing as transition to work and
  service

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Continuing Challenges

• Challenge
• Maintenance needs for wood frame houses 7M vs
  1.7M, 3-year budget
• Neighborhood concerns
• 22 houses (70 beds) with approximately 20 of
  maintenance needs
• Solution
• Build apartments to replace 534 senior beds in
  117 older houses OR
• Continue incremental approach by building
  additional prototype houses.

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What have we accomplished?

• Built Fauver Residence Hall 160 new double
  rooms for freshmen.
• Reduced our off campus numbers, increased
  revenue
• Free up singles, apartments and houses for
  upperclassmen
• Built Fauver Apartments to replace InTown
  Apartments
• Moved 118 students closer to campus
• Resolved neighborhood concerns
• Desirable for seniors alternative to wood-frame
  houses
• Built new senior prototype houses in 2005 and
  2006 (39 beds)
• Incremental approach to replacing wood frame
  houses with new energy-efficient, maintainable
  student housing

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More Accomplishments

• Wood-frame Major Maintenance Ongoing
• 4.3 M invested since 2002
• Original 22 Worst Houses
• 6 Sold
• 1 Demolished
• 9 Renovated
• 2 Vacant (231 Pine Street 172 Cross Street)
• 4 Occupied (1 on sale list)

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Ongoing Objectives

• Continue to improve safety of all housing
• Fire alarms and sprinklers added to all
  undergraduate housing gt 5 beds
• Renovate or replace worst houses
• Ongoing Renovations with Major Maintenance
  funding
• Continue to sell houses in designated zones (29
  sold to date)
• Selling 5-6 Houses/Year based on availability
• Use proceeds from house sales to build additional
  prototypes.
• Build 15-bed prototype on Pine Street

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2007 Recommendations

• Build 15 New Senior Beds (Triplex)
• Demolish and Replace 231 Pine Street (vacant for
  years)
• 1.5 Million Project Cost
• Proposed Funding Source
• House Sale Proceeds from 9 houses
• (4 undergrad 2 faculty/staff 3 graduate) 2
  lots
• Fund balance today 1.1 M
• Projected Sales in FY08 700,000 net
• Allows Sale of 15 additional Bad Beds

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Incremental Approach Limitations

• 530 Beds need renovation or replacement
• Need to Sell 3 beds to fund 1 new bed
• Sell all 43 /- faculty/staff rental houses
• Net sales proceeds 7M
• Build 70 undergraduate beds.
• Sell all 35/- wood-frame graduate houses
• Net sales proceeds 5.5 M
• Build 55 undergraduate beds.
• Leaves 400 beds as-is
• Assumed net sales proceeds of 80/gross SF
  based on average recent closed sales. Assumed
  costs of 100,000/new undergrad bed, including
  demolition of existing houses. Sales exclude
  Court Street and Park Washington Apartment
  Buildings.

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Proposed Senior House 231 Pine Street
Project Site
Fountain
Warren
Sr. Houses Phase III
Sr. Houses Phase I
Sr. Houses Phase II
Freeman Athletic Center
Pine
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Existing 231 Pine Street