Penn State officials and guests on Friday celebrated the start of construction for two new College of Engineering buildings on University Park’s West Campus, marking the beginning of a long-term plan to transform the facilities and footprint of the school’s largest academic program.
The “groundbreaking” ceremony, came well after the start of construction for the first of the buildings, counterintuitively called West 2, which began last September. But COVID-19 gathering restrictions were in place at the time and site work has only recently begun on the second building, dubbed West 1.
Located west of North Atherton Street and off of White Course Drive, the new buildings are the first phase of a
West Deck opening at University Park on Monday, May 10
Located along White Course Drive between the Earth and Engineering Sciences Building and White Course Apartments, the West Deck holds 1,651 parking spaces across the 537,037-square-foot, six-level facility.
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West Deck opening at University Park on Monday, May 10
May 07, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State Transportation Services will open the new West Deck located at University Park’s West Campus at 6 a.m. Monday, May 10, for both permit holder and visitor parking.
With the opening of the West Deck, the two sections of Red A parking located along White Course Drive near the Westgate and Earth and Engineering Sciences buildings will close at midnight Sunday night (May 9), and all vehicles must be removed from these lots by that time. Permit holders who currently have access to Red A parking areas will have access to the West Deck until further notice.