WMU’s President at the time, Elson S. Floyd, accepted a proposal to locate the new facilities on the University's Lee Baker Farm. The site had no usable existing utilities or roads, so the city of Kalamazoo committed to improving the local access to the site; the anticipated increase in traffic required the upgrade and widening of Parkview Avenue and Drake Road.
In order to minimize the environmental impact on the adjacent neighborhoods, the university committed to "buffering" development of the property with 70 acres of no-build zone between the campus and the Parkview residential neighborhood. The university also committed to minimizing 'light pollution', enforcing environmentally responsible landscaping standards, and collecting and filtering all stormwater runoff before allowing it to drain into the watershed.
To learn more about the construction of Parkview Campus, including the master plan from 2000, please click here.
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Community News
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