When the University initially unveiled the construction proposal, many Forbes residents said they were excited at the idea that the new neighborhood would integrate them into the rest of main campus.
However, after University Architect Ron McCoy GS ’80 spoke about the project in last fall’s freshman seminar FRS 115: Eye of the Tiger: Reading Buildings, some students expressed their belief that the University was ignoring their concerns as it planned the construction of the project.
One question surrounding the issue concerned the path that currently connects Forbes to the rest of campus. The proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood would have required development right up to the front of the college and across the path, forcing students to walk around the construction site.
Students said that McCoy, when asked about this inconvenience during the seminar, noted that the University would create a walkway through the building to connect Forbes to the rest of campus, but did not explain the effect that the actual construction would have on students.
“It kind of seemed as if he had forgotten about Forbes while he was talking to us,” said Eskender McCoy ’14, a student who had taken FRS 115 and also a resident of Forbes College.
But University officials explained that one of the intended purposes of the new neighborhood was to decrease the isolation from campus experienced by the residents of Forbes and the Graduate College.
“Having a very attractive campus in this location would certainly help reduce the sense of distance for students living in these colleges,” University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee ’69 said. “We also plan to create pathways through the neighborhood along which students would walk to get to the rest of campus.”
Another aim of the plan, Durkee explained, was to help improve traffic circulation along Alexander Road, which would benefit the students who frequently have to make the dangerous crossing.
“It would help make the road safer for students who walk across it every day to get to the rest of campus,” he said.
Durkee noted that were the project to continue, the University would have to decide what route students would take throughout the duration of the construction.
“We certainly will not have them walk through the construction site,” he said. “Those are plans we need to make, not just for the students, but also for the community.”
But while the future of the Neighborhood remains unknown, Forbes residents are equally divided as to whether the construction would benefit the college.
“Construction work for this project would make it harder for us to get to the main campus,” Eskender McCoy said. “Forbes does not need to seem to be any farther from the main campus than it already is.”
But Bar Shabtai ’14, who also lives in Forbes, noted that any new development near the college could ameliorate its sense of isolation.
“It is, overall, a good plan,” he said. “This project is a chance to integrate Forbes with the rest of campus, and the University should certainly try and go ahead with it.”
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