YOUR PARKING FEES AT WORK
Due to current budgetary constraints of the constituent institutions, parking revenues are being increasingly used for campus improvements, utility increases, repairs and deferred maintenance and the development of new and improved academic space. The Auraria Parking operation has funded more than $27 million dollars in campus improvement projects to date. Examples of these projects include:
ü Replaced temporary classroom trailers by converting and upgrading space into 6 “smart” (media ready) classrooms in the Administration Building.
ü Upgraded and added 10 “smart” (media ready) classrooms in the following buildings: West, South, Facilities Annex, and the Library.
ü Converted former CCD lab space in the Seventh Street Building into 4 “smart” (media ready) classrooms.
ü Improved the ventilation systems in the Science, North and Arts Buildings and completing major repairs to the campus utility infrastructure., elevator repairs in North and South Classroom Buildings and replacing the Plaza/7th Street Building roofs.
ü Improved lighting, added emergency telephones, created additional parking spaces and upgraded asphalt surfaces in campus parking lots A, B, E, F, G, H, I, M, N, W.
ü Replaced the Plaza and Seventh Street Classroom Building roofs.
ü Repaired and replaced half of the roof on the Events Center. ü Designed and constructed a new 819 space parking structure at 901 Walnut Street (North of the Tivoli Student Union).
ü Improved traffic flow by adding a traffic circle in front of the Mercantile restaurant (at the end of Curtis Street) and developed a new pedestrian mall on the west side of the Arts Building.
ü Improved and upgraded the 7th and Auraria Parkway intersection by adding a dedicated right turn lane for more efficient exiting.
ü Upgraded asphalt surfaces and constructed required storm water runoff collection and filtering basins in campus parking lots L and K.
ü Made elevator repairs in the North and South Classroom Buildings. |