CUNY Master Plan 2012-2016

THE CUNY MASTER PLAN 2012-2016
grams, which is intended to draw more students into the majors. The cost of the building is estimated at
$350 million; the balance of funding is included in the FY 2012-2017 Five-Year Capital Budget Request.
At Queens College, facilities upgrades for the sciences are already under way. Mitchell/Giurgola Architects
designed an addition to Remsen Hall, one of Queen College’s three science facilities. The new instructional
and research space was completed in 2010. Phase II of the science upgrades will renovate and/or
create research labs, offices, and classrooms in the existing building. The cost of the Phase II work is estimated
at $74 million and is included in the FY2012-13 through 2016-2017 Five-Year Capital Budget Request.
One challenging project was the replacement of Fiterman Hall for Borough of Manhattan Community
College. The building was badly damaged on September 11, 2001. Pei Cobb Freed & Partners has
designed the new 377,000 GSF building to rise on the site of the original structure. It will house classrooms,
lecture halls, offices, student meeting spaces, and a virtual library linked to BMCC’s main Chambers
Street building. Construction will be completed in time for the fall 2012 semester. The project is
fully funded at $325 million.
The new North Instructional Building at Bronx Community College will be the first academic building
constructed for the college since the campus was purchased from NYU in the early 1970s. The firm of
Robert A.M. Stern Architects has designed a beautiful new classroom and library building that will close
off the North Quad, as intended in the original campus master plan. The $102 million building will be
completed in the summer 2012.
At New York City College of Technology, the New Academic Science Building will address the college’s
acute space deficit by building an approximately 350,000-square-foot facility on the site of the Klitgord
Building. The new building will be a mixed-use facility with classrooms, computer labs, science labs, a
1,000-seat auditorium, physical education facilities, administrative offices, student services, a nursing simulation
center, and a dental hygiene clinic. Perkins Eastman Architects has designed this $405 million
project. The state has provided $252 million in appropriations for this project; the remainder is requested
in the FY 2012-2017 Five-Year Capital Budget Request and is the University’s highest priority for funding.
CUNY is in negotiations on behalf of Hunter College to purchase a floor of Weill Cornell Medical College’s
new Medical Research Building (MRB), to be constructed at 69th Street between York and 1st
Avenues. This 21,000 GSF condominium will be a standard laboratory floor designed for life sciences
research. In addition to occupancy of its laboratory floor, Hunter scientists will have access to core research
and conference facilities in the MRB, including the vivarium, on the same basis as Weill Cornell scientists.
The next major project for Baruch College is renovation of the Field Building at 17 Lexington Avenue.
Because the building is occupied and the college does not have available swing space, the renovation will
be completed in phases. The first phase will improve the building’s infrastructure, including a minor addition
to the building to support new mechanical systems, additional elevators, and stairwells that will allow
the building to function properly when programmatic changes are undertaken in the subsequent phases.
The College of Staten Island’s Interdisciplinary High Performance Computational Center, a 175,000-
square-foot facility, will house a high-performance computer that serves as a University-wide resource for
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