Specifications include, but are not limited to: The proposed approximately 68,000‐sq.ft. West Campus Dining, Learning and Wellness Center project will support and enhance the dining, learning and wellness needs of the approximately 5,000 first‐year and upper‐class students housed in ten residence halls in the West Campus Precinct of the University’s campus. The proposed project is located along a nexus of student pedestrian corridors at the intersection of East Cloverhurst Avenue and University Court, on a portion of the surface parking lot W11, ensuring that students leaving their University Housing residence halls will find the facility conveniently located on their daily path to and from class and other activities. The facility will support recent enrollment growth and provide additional dining, nutrition, health, and wellness services to meet the needs of current and planned future students in the West Campus Precinct. The design intent and scope of the proposed project would provide two levels of dining and a third level that will be shared by general‐purpose active learning classrooms for academic activities, Medical and Mental Health Services, and Nutrition and Culinary Services. The classrooms will also provide after‐hours meeting space for student organizations, a priority identified by students. Responding firms/teams must be able to demonstrate successful experience in programming, design and delivery of student dining facilities, active learning classroom facilities and wellness centers, and spaces of similar scope and complexity, as well as design and site planning to minimize negative impact on natural resources, existing campus structures, and campus operations in a densely populated area of a college campus.
