Here are some Alumni Walk facts and features:

• Groundbreaking: September 2006
• Completion: Late fall 2007
• Architect: Sasaki Associates Inc. (administered as single project with Dining Commons)
• An outdoor place to be in, not just a space to pass through
• An “egalitarian space” (where the landscape addresses all buildings in a similar way)
• Visually unique (providing contrast to the Quad)
• Dotted with scylla in mud season
• Restored memorial gardens
• Benches for lingering
• Spaces available in the future for outdoor art works
• Amphitheatre between Lane and Pettengill
• Regrading, leveling and relocation of the fire lane
• New retaining walls
• New pathways and greater ADA accessibility
• New storm water systems throughout the area
• Path lighting with consideration for ‘dark sky’ and LEED qualification
• Required underground steam, condensate, telephone and data lines