Brooklyn College broke ground recently with a ceremony that marked the start of construction of the $115 million West Quad Project, scheduled for completion in 2008. The new building will house the Department of Physical Education and Exercise Science, state-of-the-art athletic 
facilities, and a number of student services departments, including admissions, financial aid, scholarships, the registrar, and the bursar. The project is being financed by state funds.
Central to this project is the recently expanded Enrollment Services Center, created to provide a full range of services (including registrar, financial aid, bursar, check distribution, and ID functions) for students, faculty, and staff members in a “one-stop” office atmosphere.
The West Quad was designed by award-winning architect Rafael Viñoly. The project draws inspiration from the original 1937 architectural design of the Brooklyn College campus. The building offers the College an opportunity to improve its student services, academic programs, and infrastructure with state-of-the-art equipment and technology, while maintaining its classical design elements. It will feature a swimming pool and high-diving board, competition and practice gyms, a dance studio, racquetball courts, a fitness center, and teaching and research labs.
In addition, alumni Leonard and Claire Tow donated $10 million to Brooklyn College for a new Center for the Performing Arts on campus. Brooklyn College is widely recognized for its dynamic arts curriculum and talented students and faculty. The Tow Center for the Performing Arts will further raise this standing, demonstrating the College's enduring commitment to performing and visual arts. It will be housed in an architecturally distinguished new building that will offer rehearsal and performance space, set design and construction workshops, ground-floor exhibition space, a double-height theater seating 200, a grand lobby and arcade, and classroom, meeting and reception rooms.
Finally, the New York State Legislature has approved $11 million in funding for the creation of the Roosevelt Science Complex, which will improve research facilities for the College's programs in biology, chemistry, physics, geology, computer and information sciences, health and nutrition sciences, psychology, mathematics, anthropology, speech and hearing sciences, and exercise science. The Science Complex will be dedicated to promoting an increased public understanding of science and to engage the community—both at the College and in the borough of Brooklyn. Spaces showcasing research and education in the sciences for all who work on or visit our campus will underscore the excitement and significance of scientific research and the vital importance of effective science instruction for all our students.
These projects are just a few components of an extensive program of construction and renovation that is currently under way both on campus and off campus in the neighborhood surrounding Brooklyn College.
