{"id":176592,"date":"2016-08-19T15:17:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T19:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=176592"},"modified":"2016-08-22T07:58:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T11:58:15","slug":"river-campus-construction-update-176592","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/river-campus-construction-update-176592\/","title":{"rendered":"River Campus construction update"},"content":{"rendered":"

This summer has been one of the most active construction periods of all time on River Campus. Multiple new facilities and improvement projects are wrapping up, while others are still in progress. With the new academic year starting this week, below is an update on many of the bigger projects on River Campus and what is soon reopening.<\/p>\n

Frederick Douglass Building<\/h3>\n
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The newly renovated Frederick Douglass Building will include new micro-restaurant style dining and more flexible meeting spaces.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Overview:<\/strong> Centrally located on River Campus, the Frederick Douglass Building is being transformed into a vibrant new student center. All four floors are being completely redone to create state-of-the-art dining facilities, redesigned student gathering spaces, and new homes for the Paul J. Burgett Intercultural Center (BIC) and a new Language Center (LC). The new Douglass Dining Center will include a micro-restaurant environment with made-to-order food stations: a kosher station with full-time Orthodox oversight; a bistro station with pastas, salads and sandwiches; allergen-free and gluten-free areas; a street food station; and a dessert station.<\/p>\n

Progress: <\/strong>The first-floor dining center in Douglass with its new food stations will open to students on Wednesday, Aug. 24, beginning with dinner that evening from 5-8 pm. Breakfast, lunch and dinner service at Douglass will begin Thursday, Aug. 25. Douglass will need to close for dinner on Friday, Aug. 26, as well as over the weekend, to complete final construction items and will resume with full service on Monday, Aug. 29. There will be some initial limits on the full range of food offerings as final serving stations are completed, including made-to-order Kosher foods. Dining Services is able to provide pre-packaged Kosher items until the Kosher station is ready.<\/p>\n

If further changes to Douglass\u2019 dining operations or hours need to be made to accommodate final construction needs, they will be posted to the Dining Services site (http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/dining<\/a><\/strong>), the UR Orientation app, and on outdoor signs close to the Frederick Douglass Building.<\/p>\n

Additional future openings in the new Frederick Douglass Building include:<\/p>\n