Jan 18, 2010Top University News

South Lawn opens to students this semester

by Brian McNeill, Daily Progress

Photo by Dan Addison

After more than three years of construction, the University of Virginia’s massive South Lawn project will open to students, faculty and staff this week.

The three-building interconnected complex — the most ambitious undertaking on UVa’s Central Grounds in more than a century — will begin to be occupied Monday, ahead of the spring academic term that starts Jan. 20.

Two of the project’s buildings — the five-floor Nau Hall and the four-story Gibson Hall — are essentially finished and ready for occupation. These buildings will house the departments of history, politics and religious studies.

The project’s third structure is a cylindrical building called the Commons. It will feature a 250-seat octagonal lecture hall, a Starbucks coffee shop and a grassy terrace that will stretch over Jefferson Park Avenue and connect with New Cabell Hall.

“This project is being referred to as the crown jewel of UVa,” said James Kelley, South Lawn project director.

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