As part of the GSU Building Pathways for Success initiative to transform the Panter Quad-Hurt Park district and create a centralized hub that would encourage student engagement and strengthen GSU’s efforts to provide safe, inviting and comfortable spaces for the community, GSU is proposing to demolish Sparks Hall, close and convert existing Gilmer Street to a pedestrian plaza and expand the Campus Greenway to Hurt Park. Sparks Hall is a 4-story administrative, classroom and laboratory building (130,548 GSF) that was originally constructed in 1955. The expanded Greenway would include tiered seating utilizing existing site topography, enhanced sidewalks and a vegetated buffer along Courtland Street. Additionally, the block of Gilmer Street between Peachtree Center Avenue and Courtland Street will be closed for regular vehicular traffic and will be developed as a pedestrian plaza with brick pavers, the GSU logo, enhanced lighting, landscaping, and furniture, for use by the students and university community.
