George Mason University Expansion
The Arlington County campus of George Mason University (Mason) is undergoing a major expansion, located on North Fairfax Drive in the Virginia Square area of Arlington.
Building onto a completed law school, the Phase II expansion will involve the construction of a new school building, which will also include facilities that will be
accessible to the broader community, including an auditorium, a multipurpose room and an approximately 20,000 square foot plaza. The plaza will be the focal point of not
just the expanding campus, but also of the growing Virginia Square community.
Arlington County and Mason officials asked Project for Public Spaces (PPS) to help inform the design, program of uses, and management of the future plaza. In June 2007,
PPS facilitated a meeting among key players from the community, county, and university to review the design of the plaza, for which construction documents had been prepared.
See summary report from June 2007
Building onto this initial work, PPS was asked to meet with other stakeholder groups and facilitate a public workshop on August 21, 2007 to help the plaza’s anticipated
stakeholders develop a vision for the plaza and a program of desired uses. University faculty, staff and students, community members, civic organizations and county
representatives came together to envision the future of the public plaza – a gathering place that will build community within the Arlington campus and the Virginia Square
community as a whole. See summary report from August 2007
Phase II is currently under construction and will be completed in the Spring of 2010. For updated information, click here.
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