“Own it.” –Maureen Williams Student Government of Loyola Chicago October 14th, 2015, 4:00 PM 4th Floor of the Information Commons, Lake Shore Campus Senate Minutes
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Roll Call A. Call to order 4:04 PM. B. Speaker Kelley takes roll i. Absent: Sen Loutfi, Sen Gorecki, Sen Fleisher Visitors & Guest Speakers A. Wayne Magdziarz – Senior Vice President of Capital Planning i. Magdziarz: I am the guy responsible for buildings, construction at Lakeshore, WTC, Rome, Health Sciences, Cuneo, and LUREC. ii. Updates on 4 things: 1. Hampton Inn Hotel, Sheridan & Albion. 135 rooms. Finished by this time next year. Developer team working with is very well respected, treat their workers well. Run 14 hotels in Midwest. They manage and run their properties for the long haul, long term partners. Need help with, ideas for new retailers around campus. 9000 square feet on first floor of hotel. Responsible for leasing the space. Talk to friends, think about this while at home for Christmas break; come with ideas. We want 1 or 2 local or small retailers. We are flexible but also patient. 2. All familiar with new Kenmore Plaza, we want to do something similar on Winthrop except 1 lane of traffic going south. Many people that live south of Rosemont or Granville will need it. Make it one plane, one lane for the plaza and another for traffic. Should have preliminary pictures until Spring – Fall of next year. 7 or 8 months to finish. Extend what we have on Kenmore to Winthrop. Integrate res halls with rest of campus. 3. WTC Campus- Schreiber Center open and fully functional. Maguire is now used for Arrupe, 159 students enrolled. Spring semester school of social work from Lewis will be top 2 floors of Maguire Hall. 4. Last thing, Centennial Forum. Engineering 40 students, 120 by next year. Labs temporarily in CFSU. Work over the summer, so we have enough space by Fall. Computer science will move from WTC to Lakeshore, temporary home for them for the next 2 to 3 years. a. Sen Hall: Interested about Winthrop project, why is that necessary? Logic behind no curbs? i. Magdziarz: Doing it primarily for safety reasons. In the past, Winthrop was a pretty dangerous street. There used to be a poorly run nursing center. Many residents in that street were treated poorly so we