New Gym Construction Begins on Owings Mills Campus
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2009
OWINGS MILLS, Md. - Stevenson University has officially begun construction on its new gymnasium on the Owings Mills campus which will replace the existing gymnasium inside the Carolyn Manuszak Student Union Gymnasium on the Greenspring campus.
Scheduled to open in early 2010, the two-story gym was designed by J.T. Fishman & Associates in Owings Mills and is being constructed by David S. Brown Enterprises, LTD. It will have a total of 38,000 square feet and providing a combined practice and game venue for the University's men's and women's basketball teams as well as its men's and women's volleyball teams.
The design layout is organized as a "pit" style building that support spaces include individual men's and women's team rooms for basketball and volleyball, two sets of visiting team rooms, concessions, public restrooms, office space and storage. The building will provide a backdrop to the future athletic fields used for soccer, lacrosse and in 2011, football.
Commencements are also expected to be held in the new gym instead of at Greenspring.
To allow the sharing of administrative offices and other athletic support spaces, J.T. Fishman & Associates sited the building next to the existing Caves Sports and Wellness Center which the group also helped convert to a wellness and athletic center after it had served as the home to the Baltimore Colts and Ravens.
The project will continue the university's recent focus on its Owings Mills campus as the school opened its new School of Business last August and is preparing to open an 11th residence hall this fall in a former office building in the Boulevard Corporate Center behind Outback Steakhouse and Bonefish Grill.
