Wentworth plans $128M campus expansion
By Thomas Grillo, Boston Herald April 9, 2009
Wentworth Institute of Technology has proposed an ambitious $127.6 million expansion of its Mission Hill campus.
The 105-year-old school that specializes in architecture, computer science and design has filed plans with the Boston Redevelopment Authority for a Student Life Center, a 260-bed dormitory, a 40,000-square-foot addition to accommodate new classrooms and studios, and a parking garage.
If approved by the city, the redeveloped campus would include a four-story student center, gallery, fitness center and game room.
The six-story residences would be built at 525 Huntington Ave. and will offer dorms for up to 395 students.
A four-story addition of classroom space and a 400-car parking garage would be built on Parker Street.
Wentworth also wants to construct two buildings of up to 14 stories that would contain up to 650,000 square feet of office and research space at Sweeney Field.