{"id":2116,"date":"2025-01-21T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/blogtest\/spring-2025-campus-expansion\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T17:48:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:48:42","slug":"spring-2025-campus-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/spring-2025-campus-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2025 Campus Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Facilities growth represents an investment in areas of study that will solve problems, improve the social good, and supply a skilled regional workforce. MTSU has been blessed with more than $1.5 billion in campus improvements and renovations during my tenure as president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Here are updates on our current major projects:<\/p>\n

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Applied Engineering Building (opens in 2025)<\/p>\n

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    $74.8 million project<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    more than $1 million in automation equipment<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    89,000-square-foot facility<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    will house MTSU\u2019s renowned Mechatronics Engineering program and Engineering Technology<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    will provide enhanced student opportunities for faculty-led research and labs for student teams, including the Experimental Vehicles Program and robotics competitions<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    represents the finishing touch to MTSU\u2019s Science Corridor of Innovation, which also includes the $40.1 million Concrete and Construction management building, two renovated science buildings, and the 250,000-square-foot Science Building, which opened in 2014 as the single largest investment by the state for an academic facility<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Kirksey Old Main and Rutledge Hall (completion expected by summer 2026)<\/p>\n

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      $54.3 million renovation to two of MTSU\u2019s original buildings<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      iconic columns of KOM, the first building on campus founded in 1911, will be preserved<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      KOM to remain home to Mathematical Sciences, Computer Science, and Data Science<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      Rutledge being transformed from a dormitory to an academic building that houses the University Studies Department<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      Student-Athlete Performance Center<\/p>\n

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        $66 million project<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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        first stage of redevelopment of the entire northwest corner of the MTSU campus envisioned in the MTSU Athletics Master Plan<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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        small section of outdoor loge seating to be added to the north end of Floyd Stadium<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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        75,000-square-foot facility to include training spaces, strength and conditioning rooms, locker rooms, meeting space, and offices to serve MTSU Athletics and student-athletes<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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        Aerospace Project\u2013Shelbyville (estimated completion by fall 2027)<\/p>\n

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          $62.2 million total project cost<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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          estimated $50.2 million construction cost<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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          site located along Highway 231 and just west of the Shelbyville Municipal Airport<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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          includes facilities for the Professional Pilot concentration: 50,000-square-foot net space for main academic building(s), including classroom, dispatch, faculty and staff offices, flight briefing; 28,000-square-foot hangar to maintain Professional Pilot aircraft fleet; site and utility improvements for 16-acre parcel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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