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Elkton Road parking garage opens

3:44 p.m., Jan. 24, 2005--The new parking garage on Elkton Road, located near the new Center for the Arts under construction, opened Monday, Jan. 24.

The $12 million structure, accessible from Elkton Road and Amstel Avenue, replaces the former Orchard Road parking lot, just south of the Amy E. du Pont Building.

The 717-space garage is a multi-use facility, with pay-to-park spaces, as well as employee and resident student gated parking areas.

The facility is accessible 24 hours a day for gate­controlled and cash users. An attendant will be present from 6:30 a.m.-1:30 a.m., seven days a week, during the academic year. A self-service machine, which accepts only cash, is available for use when the attendant is not present.

The former Orchard Road gated lot is now closed, and its former patrons have been transferred to the new parking facility.

Parking costs are 55 cents per half hour or less, with no maximum fee, from 6:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Mondays-Fridays; and 30 cents per half hour or less, with a maximum fee of $3, from 6 p.m.-6:30 a.m., Mondays-Fridays and all day on Saturdays and Sundays.

The five-level, 220,000-gross square feet, pre-cast concrete structure includes two elevators that service all levels.

Access and traffic patterns The Elkton Road entrance to the new garage allows only right turns in and right turns out. Vehicles exiting the facility are not able to turn left onto Elkton Road, and vehicles heading south on Elkton Road are not able to make a left-hand turn to enter the garage. The Amstel Avenue entrance/exit, located just east of UD’s Conover Apartments, permits vehicles to enter and exit the garage in either direction. The city of Newark currently prohibits vehicles from making a right turn from Amstel to Orchard Road, and recently installed signage related to the regulation at that intersection. A construction fence separates the construction site for the Center for the Arts and the garage, but pedestrian access is available from the garage to the Amy E. du Pont Music Building.

Construction continues on the $47 million Center for the Arts, which began in June and is scheduled for completion in 2006. The new center, located off Orchard Road, will provide performance spaces for music and theatre, plus an indoor practice venue for the UD Marching Band and smaller practice rooms for music students. The 92,000-gross-square-foot performing arts facility also will include a 200-seat recital hall, a proscenium theatre that will seat 450 persons and a variety of other practice and performance spaces. Architect for the Center for the Arts is Ayers Saint Gross of Baltimore.

A large concert hall also has been designed as a future addition to the project.

In 2004, the University launched its first-ever campus-wide Employee Challenge campaign, where gifts made by employees and retirees in support of any University program or department are matched on a one-to-one basis. Employee gifts in support of the Center for the Arts are matched two-to-one, with matches to benefit the center—the University’s current highest priority project.

There are no limits on the dollar amount that will be matched. The matching funds, including donor-directed funds, come from those already earmarked for the Center for the Arts. The match covers both one-time gifts and those made through the campus payroll deduction program.

Article by Jerry Rhodes
Photo by Kevin Quinlan

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