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BEYOND THE PLAYING
FIELD
The future of campus facilities includes marrying academics, athletics and student life.
By Nate Appleman
A TRANSFORMATION IS UNDERWAY AT NOTRE DAME STADIUM in South Bend, IN. It’s the Campus Crossroads Project, a groundbreaking planning and design initiative that is converting the historic stadium into a year-round hub for aca- demics, athletics and student life.
The project, the largest building endeavor in the university’s history, brings new loge boxes, press facilities and club seats to the 1930s-era stadium that will optimize its flexibil- ity for multipurpose events and academic uses on non-game days. But Campus Crossroads is much more than that. The project adds three massive new buildings to the west, east and south sides of the stadium, bringing more than 800,000 square feet of new classroom, research, student-life, fitness, multimedia, performance, meeting, event and hospitality space to the university. The project has the additional benefit of drawing students to the stadium on more than just autumn Saturdays and strengthening the facility’s connectivity
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