Eight major capital improvement projects to update or restore parts of the University of St. Thomas will take place this summer. All of these projects will occur on the university’s St. Paul campus, and construction may cause some parking lots and areas of certain buildings to close temporarily during the summer.
Projects are scheduled late May through the end of August.
These projects include:
2120 Summit Ave.
- The garage behind 2120 Summit Ave. (Development Office) will be razed to expand the existing parking lot used by the Child Development Center and the Development Office. Work will be begin in early June and will be completed by late July. The area also will be landscaped.
Brady Hall
- Phase two of work on fixing the exterior brick of the upper floors, which have experienced structural issues the past few years, will continue this summer and will be completed by July 19. Phase one occurred last summer and fixed 60 percent of the afflicted areas.
Modern and Classical Languages Department
- All 2,800 square feet of the Modern and Classical Languages offices on the third floor of O’Shaughnessy Educational Center will be renovated.
Murray-Herrick Campus Center
- Renovation of the building, including the second-floor space in Herrick Hall (former dining rooms and office space converted for use by Admissions) will continue this summer and will finish by Aug. 15. When completed the entire Enrollment Services division will be in Murray-Herrick Campus Center. (The Office of Financial Aid moved last year.)
O’Shaughnessy Stadium
- Decorative Mankato Kasota stone will be added to each end and underneath the existing video board in O'Shaughnessy Stadium to make it fit within the context of the stadium, which is walled in the same stone.
Owens Science Hall
- The obsolete fume-hood controls, which exhaust air from the science labs, will be replaced in the fourth-floor teaching labs.
Saint John Vianney Seminary
- The building will be reroofed beginning Monday, June 3. Part of Parking Lot A will be closed, and there will be additional construction traffic at Selby and Finn avenues. Also, the asphalt-based material used in the project has been known to have a strong odor, so those with offices nearby are advised to keep their windows closed. The project will last about two weeks.
Sculpture garden
- A sculpture garden will be installed in the area between Brady Educational Center and the Binz Refectory. The sculptures include “The Family,” a 3,200-pound copper sculpture by Evelyn Raymond that originally was installed on the Coughlan Field House's east wall in 1983; "Stephen's Summer" by John Raimondi, a five-piece, 21-ton sculpture of cor-ten steel donated by Dolly Fiterman, which previously was displayed on the west lawn of Loras Hall; and possibly a third sculpture to be announced.
South Field
- St. Thomas will replace the grass with artificial turf beginning Monday, May 20. The bleachers, scoreboard, fencing and softball dugouts also will be replaced. All of the work, which will cost $2 million, is expected to be completed by early August. More information is available in this Newsroom article.
