CSUF Irvine Campus Moving Closer to Irvine Spectrum
Some 2,000 students attending the university’s CSUF Irvine Campus are expected to start the 2011 spring semester in new quarters at 3 Banting Road, Irvine, about four miles southwest of the branch campus’s current location at the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station.
The new location will provide a more central venue for the university’s branch campus, near the intersections of the 405 freeway and 133 toll road and the 5 freeway and toll road, approximately two miles from the Irvine Spectrum. The relocated campus will offer mass transit advantages, given the readily available bus service. The new site includes onsite parking for faculty, students and staff.
As the only California State University campus in Orange County, Cal State Fullerton has a special responsibility to make our programs easily accessible, explains CSUF President Milton A. Gordon. “The CSU was founded to provide broad access to degree-seekers. Given the economic and environmental impact of the county’s existing traffic congestion, bringing the university’s programs to the people of central and south Orange County is looking greener every day.”
Established with support from the CSU in 1989 to meet the higher education needs of central and south Orange County, Cal State Fullerton’s branch campus offers many of the resources of a large university and a program of upper-division, credential and graduate-level courses in a smaller, more intimate learning environment. The original site of the university’s branch campus was in Mission Viejo on the southeast corner of Saddleback College, where the first classes were held in fall 1989.
Since 2002, the CSUF Irvine Campus has occupied 46,000 square feet of space at the former Marine base adjacent to the Great Park. The university must relocate by the end of August 2011 to make way for development of the Great Park Neighborhood project.
Current plans have the university completing improvements to the 3 Banting facility, a two-story office building, during the fall 2010 semester, to allow sufficient time for the transfer of campus operations to the newly constructed offices and classrooms by the start of spring semester 2011.
“We are leasing the entire building of approximately 70,000 square feet,” said Jay Bond, associate vice president for facilities management. “The tenant improvements we will be making will fit nicely in the building and will allow an increase in instructional capacity over what is presently available at the Irvine Campus.”
The university’s seven-year lease at the new location will provide sufficient time for the university to pursue permanent quarters in the surrounding area.
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