Buchtel Commons Renovations

[WeRise225]

Looks like they are finally fixing the embarrassing brick road through campus. Can’t wait for this, the current state of the brick road is just ridiculously bad. 

[Reslife4Life]

Finally! That area in front of the library has been awful for years now, it seems there is always a hole in the ground, that picture on the bottom left looks good! And that area in front of Crouse/Ritchie needs some work as well

[WeRise225]

45 minutes ago, Reslife4Life said:

Finally! That area in front of the library has been awful for years now, it seems there is always a hole in the ground, that picture on the bottom left looks good! And that area in front of Crouse/Ritchie needs some work as well

They really should turn the large concrete patch in north quad into greenspace as well and eliminate the parking lot behind ritchie, make it all greenspace. 

Edited March 5 by WeRise225
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[MDZip]

3 hours ago, WeRise225 said:

Looks like they are finally fixing the embarrassing brick road through campus. Can’t wait for this, the current state of the brick road is just ridiculously bad. 

Some of us were there when it was a four lane one way highway. A student would get hit almost every year and about every four years someone would get killed. Big day when they finally rerouted that highway. 

[Reslife4Life]

14 hours ago, MDZip said:

Some of us were there when it was a four lane one way highway. A student would get hit almost every year and about every four years someone would get killed. Big day when they finally rerouted that highway. 

I could not imagine that today. I have heard stories about that for years, but now it looks impossible for there to have ever been a road there. Them making it a pedestrian only walkway has to be one of the more underrated campus improvements of all time

[GP1]

5 hours ago, Reslife4Life said:

I could not imagine that today. I have heard stories about that for years, but now it looks impossible for there to have ever been a road there. Them making it a pedestrian only walkway has to be one of the more underrated campus improvements of all time

Thanks for making me feel old. As it turns out, I can imagine it because I saw it. The fall of 87 was my first semester. It was the last semester Carroll Street extended through campus. I remember how awesome it was when the commons was finished. 

[Hilltopper]

35 minutes ago, GP1 said:

Thanks for making me feel old. As it turns out, I can imagine it because I saw it. The fall of 87 was my first semester. It was the last semester Carroll Street extended through campus. I remember how awesome it was when the commons was finished. 

Buchtel and Carrol streets we major east west arteries at the time I started in fall of 77. 

[adzip]

You all are virtual teenagers. I started work at Akron June 1965! Started graduate school at night the same year. Not only was Buchtel open, there were apartment buildings across the street- believe they were called the Char apartments (i think) used as dorms to the growing student population. there were small former homes, some used as fraternity houses, where the library is. 

 

Akron has grown and developed as a strong regional University during this period and needs to feel prouder about its strengthening than it does. It is an excellent institution and changes like this pathway enhancement will give it the visual "look" that many people associate with a strong school.

 

Looks great

 

Forever a Zip!

[ZippyRulz]

So removing the brick and replacing with concrete?

 

 

[WeRise225]

Looks like they are matching the theme in the commons. The concrete split up by a row of bricks @ZippyRulz

Edited March 7 by WeRise225

[Reslife4Life]

15 hours ago, ZippyRulz said:

So removing the brick and replacing with concrete?

 

 

I love the brick but they have gotten so lazy with repairing it, they would pretty much just put concrete with a fake brick pattern as a patch when there were holes