{"id":30,"date":"2010-07-30T15:25:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T19:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/campus-improvements\/facts-and-features\/"},"modified":"2018-12-07T13:26:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T18:26:03","slug":"facts-and-features","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/facility\/campus-improvements\/new-dining-commons-february-2008__trashed\/facts-and-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts and features"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Groundbreaking: September 2006<\/li>\n<li>Completion: Early 2008<\/li>\n<li>Architect: Sasaki Associates Inc.<\/li>\n<li>Located next to Alumni Gym, across from Pettengill Hall and bordering Central Avenue<\/li>\n<li>60,000 square feet &#8212; about the size of the entire current Chase Hall facility &#8212; and features the second-largest footprint of any campus building after Merrill Gym<\/li>\n<li>Harmonizes with traditional Bates architecture by incorporating brick, granite, slate, copper and glass<\/li>\n<li>Preserves the distinctive Bates experience of a single, central dining hall where students, faculty and staff can dine together<\/li>\n<li>Offers a main dining area to accommodate 754 seats<\/li>\n<li>Features a signature fireplace lounge for students to meet and chat from early morning until late at night<\/li>\n<li>Wireless network access throughout the building<br \/>\n  Includes mezzanine dining &nbsp;with 200 seats overlooking the main dining area to provide a place for use in peak times, for those who want a quieter spot to eat, and for student groups to meet<\/li>\n<li>Includes an emporium that opens early and closes late to provide light snacks and pre-packaged food<\/li>\n<li>Includes five new meeting spaces for student groups, alumni, faculty<br \/>\n  and staff<\/li>\n<li>Features the &#8220;marketplace&#8221; model of serving where Dining Services staff prepare meals at various stations, in full view, which will eliminate lines<\/li>\n<li>Gives Dining Services staff proper kitchen facilities designed for efficient preparation of the 4,800 meals served every day<\/li>\n<li>Increases the amount of cold and dry storage spaces to achieve savings through the bulk purchase of food<\/li>\n<li>Features complete exterior landscaping<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groundbreaking: September 2006 Completion: Early 2008 Architect: Sasaki Associates Inc. Located next&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2268,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/facility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/facility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/facility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/facility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/facility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/facility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/facility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/2350"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/facility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/facility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}