Topic: University of Dayton Projects

[Ronnie]

^---Yup, sure was.

[mark1152]

They sure were quick to tear down that building...go figure. But they have no idea what they are going to put there. . .

Excuse my cynicism, but I think they do know what they want to put on that corner. I just hope it enhances the neighborhood and the southern gateway to the city. I'd also like to know what's new with plans for the Fairgrounds. Anybody hear anything?

[dfly]

The rubble of Building 26

[ForTheLoveOfDayton]

From TechTown to the new campus masterplan to Brown St. to the campus expansion to the Great Miami River and a sustainable residence hall in the North student neighborhood near South Park, there’s a lot going on with the University of Dayton.

To explain the University’s future, UD has created a fantastic website. I urge everyone to check it out at http://whatsnext.udayton.edu

or read the pdf here: Transformative Moments

[Mr. Anderson]

UD gets $5 million from NCR for development

By Dave Larsen, Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

DAYTON — NCR Corp. will donate $5 million to the University of Dayton that will help UD to transform property on the Great Miami River.

NCR is relinquishing all participation rights in the commercial development of the largely unused 50-acre parcel UD purchased in 2005 from the global technology company.The gift allows UD the flexibility to develop the land for academic and mixed use without sharing a portion of future revenues. The property runs from Brown Street to the Great Miami River.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/12/30/ddn123008udgift.html

[PRidgeFlyer]

The $5 million gift follows the November announcement of a $10 million gift for scholarships from a 1965 UD graduate who wishes to remain anonymous.

It should have said "from a 1998 UD grad" and I no longer wish to remain anonymous 

[ColDayMan]

Developers plan up to $20M project near UD Arena

A Los Angeles developer, in league with a Cleveland real estate guru, plans a major overhaul of the abandoned Delphi Corp. campus near the University of Dayton Arena.

For more, click the link:
http://dayton.bizjournals.com/dayton/stories/2009/07/06/daily30.html

[Daytonnatian]

This is great news!!!

Actually, I don't know if it would be that high risk, except for the fact that the economy is bad here. That area has a lot of traffic and UD isn't exactly a small school. It also has a need formore of this type of development, and the location is logical, so hopefully all goes well.

[Clevelander17]

It's been a few months since it happened so I'm surprised we don't have any talk about UD's purchase of NCR headquarters.  Is there another place where it's been discussed?

[Scrabble]

I think a lot of UD news gets spinned off into other threads for some reason.

They are redoing the central mall this summer.  Here's a photo slideshow:
http://campus.udayton.edu/udq/mov/2010/072910construction.html

[Clevelander17]

I think a lot of UD news gets spinned off into other threads for some reason.

They are redoing the central mall this summer.  Here's a photo slideshow:
http://campus.udayton.edu/udq/mov/2010/072910construction.html

Looks like it's coming along nicely.  It was quite a mess when I was there for Reunion Weekend in June.

[Scrabble]

Here's today's photo from UD's photo blog UDQuickly.



For those unfamiliar with Dayton, here's a breakdown of the area photographed:

This is Brown Street today, looking north the top of an old NCR factory turned UD office building.  Brown will become more pedestrian friendly with the addition of crosswalks, trees, wider sidewalks, and a boulevard. 

The brick building in the foreground was recently built by UD and houses grad students upstairs and sandwich shops/retail/banking on the first floor.

The intersection at bottom center is Brown and Stewart.  Stewart runs east to west and is the main conduit to UD from I-75 which lies just across the Great Miami to the west.

The treeline is Historic South Park which has become a point of pride in the city's renascent historic preservation/urban living community.

The black watertower near the horizon on the left sits atop Mendelson's Liquidation Outlet (aka the old Delco plant).  It neighbors the minor league baseball stadium and a few other downtown residential developments.  Its potential redevelopment is considered a major "game changer" to downtown Dayton.

The houses on the right are the North Student Neighborhood, known to students as the Darkside due to its lack of streetlights in the past. The brick building is the rear of Patterson-Kennedy Elementary school.

The two church steeples are in the vicinity of the Oregon District which is both a historic neighborhood with blocks and blocks of housing and a small streetscape of galleries/bars/restaurants.

The cellphone tower is in the heart of Tech Town. My google search of Tech Town lead me to the city's website for the project too: http://www.cityofdayton.org/departments/ed/Pages/TechTown2.aspx

[Jeffery]

That type of context-sensitive infill on Brown is probably what should be going up at the Frank Z site (or something similar to it).  Maybe not as heavily retailed (since that building seems to have problems leasing), but with at least retail space to anchor corners.

There are good generic models from the 1920s and earlier for urban housing on busy streets that does not necessarily have retail on the ground floor.

[Hootenany]

^Renderings for the new Brown Street Residential project at the former Frank Z sight have been released in the most recent issue of UD Magazine.  I can't find the rendering online anywhere, but the rendering shows the front of the building facing Brown.  Looks like a three story apartment building build up to the street.  The article describes the development as five buildings with a "townhouse style" facade which will be connected by a "spacious courtyard."  This is a $25 million project on 6 acres and will provide housing for up to 427 upperclass and international students.

This article shows the courtyard:  http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/news/2011/01/20/university-of-dayton-launches-25m.html

[Clevelander17]

Anything will be a nice addition to Brown Street, but the external design of the townhomes looks a little boring.  Almost like the Lawnview Apartments design.

[Hootenany]

^If UD is building it then you know it's going to be a pretty conservative, traditional design.  It's not bad... and it puts more students on Brown Street... not a bad thing.

[Brutus_buckeye]

They also recently purchased the old Elementary School on Wyoming. May have plans to develop that area soon as well

[Clevelander17]

They also recently purchased the old Elementary School on Wyoming. May have plans to develop that area soon as well

Did DCS close that school down recently?  I thought there were still students there when I was in school (as recently as mid-2000s).

[Hootenany]

^I believe it was still open when I was there in 2008...

[PRidgeFlyer]

Anything will be a nice addition to Brown Street, but the external design of the townhomes looks a little boring.  Almost like the Lawnview Apartments design.

I agree about the design, but anything will look better than a car dealership in the middle of campus. 

[Jeffery]

Ive heard the old elementary school will be partially torn down for a re-alignment of Wyoming around MVH, to eliminate that dog-leg betw main and brown.

And, yeah, more sucktastic architecture from UD.  Too bad because they had a great concept for saving the "student ghetto" as a mx of infill and restoration of older houses, plus that neat Art Street gallery/studio space in the middle.

Instead they go "corporate/suburban".   Bleh.  There WAS a good opportunity, but as always in Dayton, the cheap and banal and predictable is the default ethos.

[ColDayMan]

UD starts on $30M campus renovations



The University of Dayton this summer has nearly $30 million worth of construction projects in the pipeline, including an $8 million jumpstart to a planned $20 million renovation of its sciences building.

Construction on the university Science Center is slated for the next two summers. The Science Center building — which houses courses within the college of arts and sciences — was built as two separate structures in the late 1950s and early 1960s and later joined in 2003. The old sections will receive new windows, ceilings, lights and air conditioning.

More below:
http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/print-edition/2012/04/20/ud-starts-on-30m-campus-renovations.html

[Clevelander17]

I could have sworn that they renovated the science building recently, but maybe I am actually just thinking of that connector that was created in 2003.  Wow that doesn't seem that long ago, but according to my math that's nine years...time is flying!