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Campus upgrades greet students for new school year

October 31, 2019

In addition to the new School of Business, students were met with many improvements when they arrived on campus for the Fall 2019 semester. Over the summer, Liberty renovated and upgraded facilities, announced new dining options, and worked on current and future construction projects.


The Hill residence halls
The Hill housing area, which includes seven residence halls (pictured at top), received substantial renovations and improvements throughout the summer, including new roofing, floors, fresh paint for the rooms and hallways, and an updated water system. Crews also created more central outdoor recreation space featuring a new lawn area with hammock posts and patios with firepits.


Liberty Mountain Gun Club Lodge
The 6,000-square-foot lodge opened this fall to offer gun storage, an armory, awards station, and a team room for Liberty’s collegiate shooting sports. The lodge complements the gun club’s Olympic-style shooting sports venues, which include multiple rifle, pistol, and shotgun ranges, sporting clays fields, and a bunker trap.

 

 

 


David’s Place
A recreation venue that has long featured billiards, table tennis, and gaming was converted into a fitness facility offering equipment for cardio and strength training as well as a cycle studio and multipurpose studio. The heated outdoor pool remains in operation. Students are encouraged to use the Montview Game Room, on the second floor of the Montview Student Union, as the main site for billiards and gaming.


Einstein Bros. Bagels and more
Einstein’s Bros. Bagels opened on the bottom floor of the Jerry Falwell Library, between Pizza Hut and Auntie Anne’s. The national chain, commonly located in airports and malls, specializes in breakfast foods and serves a wide variety of coffees, including Caribou Coffee. Students also have two new eateries in the Tilley Student Center in Green Hall: Fuego, offering Latin-inspired meals, and Umai, featuring Asian cuisine. At The Food Court at Reber-Thomas, Liberty’s main dining hall, students now enjoy Bistro ’71, which was moved from David’s Place but features the same menu of deli sandwiches and flatbreads. The dining hall has also introduced a more diversified global station.


Ongoing construction

> Liberty Arena:
Progress continues on a new 125,000-square-foot sports arena next to the Vines Center. The arena will host women’s volleyball games and men’s and women’s basketball games. Along with the 4,000-seat stadium, the Liberty Arena will include expanded office and locker room space. The opening is scheduled for Fall 2020.


> Parking garage:
With two residence halls on East Campus demolished at the beginning of the summer, ground was broken for the new parking garage expected to open by August 2020. It will span nine floors with 2,000 parking spaces and connect directly to the pedestrian tunnel that accesses main campus.

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