Mt. Pleasant Planning Board to Approve Pace Renovation Project Changes
Pace University is seeking Mount Pleasant Planning Board approval for some changes in the first phase of its renovation project, including the addition of four backup power generators.
In July 2013 the board voted unanimously to approve Phase 1A of the multi-phase project. The university’s plan, which was originally announced in late 2010, will have Pace sell its 35-acre Briarcliff campus, which opened in 1977, and add dormitories and other facilities to the 200-acre Pleasantville campus. Pace is planning to have the Briarcliff campus students move to the Pleasantville campus for the start of the 2015-16 academic year.
Construction is taking place on a roughly 15,000 square foot, one-story Environmental Center on the northern portion of the campus, which is scheduled to be completed this summer.
At the Aug. 7 planning board meeting, Andrew Tung, a landscape architect employed by the university, said his client was seeking changes in the Phase 1A of the Master Plan.
Tung said one generator would be used to provide back up power.
All of the phases of the Mater Plan are expected to be completed in 10 years, Tung said.
Another change sought for the Master Plan is a reduction in the size of the renovated field house from the originally proposed 26,000 square feet to a revised plan for 15,000 square feet for the facility, Tung said.
No residents spoke at last week’s meeting and the planning board voted unanimously to close the public hearing. The board also voted unanimously to instruct town Planning Consultant Pat Cleary to draft an approving resolution that could be voted on as early as the board’s next meeting on Aug. 18.
