Centrally located between Alumni Gymnasium and Garcelon Field, the new dining Commons will represent the best traditions of our current Memorial Commons.

This connector gives the campus a new physical unity, linking the new dining Commons with student residences across College Street. The walk replaces Andrews Road — at heart a parking lot — with car-free thoroughfares in a grove of native birches.

A new 152-bed residential village at Bates, located adjacent to Rand Hall