News New era for Rutgers-Newark Archived article from Dec 6, 2004 By Carla Capizzi

Credit: Photo by Shelley Kusnetz From left, Provost Steven Diner, NCAS student John Feliz, Newark Mayor Sharpe James, NJIT President Robert Altkenkirch, State Assemblyman William Payne; U.S. Congressman Donald Payne; NJ Commissioner of Education William Librera; Joyce Harley, executive director, Newark Downtown District; President Richard McCormick, Christopher Grabe, Davis Brody Bond architects; Tim Johnson, director of housing and residence life, Rutgers-Newark; and Ernest Mueller, Rutgers Board of Trustees. The Newark campus officially began its transformation into a “24/7” campus at a Nov. 30 groundbreaking for University Square, a major new residence hall on the corner of University and Central avenues. University Square, expected to be completed in fall 2006, will be the first new residence hall on campus in 14 years. The 13-story, $51 million complex will house 600 students in two- and three-bedroom apartments with kitchens and private baths. The first floor will feature several retail stores. President Richard McCormick, Provost Steven J. Diner and members of Rutgers’ governing boards were on hand for the 1 p.m. ceremony, along with students, faculty and staff, City of Newark and State of New Jersey officials, and the campus’s neighbors from the Newark community. The new residence hall will help to alleviate the overcrowding that has forced campus officials to place some resident students in the Robert Treat Hotel in downtown Newark and others in residence halls at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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