The University of Missouri-Kansas City has announced and begun construction on major improvements to its physical facilities to meet key strategic goals.
Projects currently under construction include:
- The 160,000 square foot Healthcare Delivery and Innovation Building project at 25th and Charlotte streets, the largest capital improvement project in UMKC history.
- The $14.5 million medical building for the School of Medicine campus in St. Joseph, Missouri, that will provide 22,000 square feet of medical education space.
- An expansion of Academic Success services, with new facilities on the fourth floor of the Miller Nichols Library.
- Roo Plaza, which will enclose 51st Street from Cherry to Rockhill to provide a walkable, landscaped area for campus and community use.
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Healthcare Delivery and Innovation Building (2/17)
- Due to construction around the Healthcare Delivery and Innovation Building, traffic flow on 24th Terrace and Charlotte Street is now one way. No left turns are allowed from Charlotte onto 24th Terrace. Right turns only are allowed when exiting the parking garage onto 24th Terrace. This traffic pattern will be in effect for the duration of the project.
- The campus surface parking lot at 25th and Charlotte streets closed. Student permit parking is no longer allowed in lot 68, located south of 25th along Charlotte Street. Health Sciences Campus map and Shuttle (PDF).
- Faculty, staff and students can park in the seven-floor Hospital Hill Parking Garage 28 on the southeast corner of 24th and Charlotte streets, just north of the construction site/former lot, or in a surface lot 67 to the east at 25th and Campbell streets. Student parking in the garage is available on floors four through seven.
- Parking for UMKC School of Dentistry clinic patients as well as metered spots for other UMKC Health Sciences District visitors has been moved to surface lot 68.
- UMKC IDs are required to scan in and out of the parking garage.
- UMKC hosted a community celebration of the construction launch in September.
- Currently, soil removal is underway as the construction crew begins work on the site. We are in the early stages of excavation and preparing the ground for the next phase of construction.
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Roo Plaza (3/25)
- 51st Street between Cherry Street and Rockhill Road is closed to cars and open to pedestrian traffic.
- Several stop signs were added and road markings were repainted as traffic-control measures and to enhance pedestrian safety.
- To prepare the roadway surface to receive the graphics application, it will be closed in sections, over the course of one day, for the seal coat application. That is scheduled for Wednesday March 19, with March 20 and 21 as back-up days pending weather.
- Over the entire week of Spring Break, March 24-28, the full expanse between Cherry and Rockhill will be closed. Some mid-block access points will be available for pedestrian crossing
- A street celebration will be held at noon April 15 to mark the completion of Roo Plaza.
St. Joseph School of Medicine Campus (2/17)
- Construction officially began in April.
- The site has been prepared for foundational work, which has begun.
- The elevator shaft and some piping work has also been completed.
- This project is on schedule to open in June 2025.
- The structure frame and interior wall framing for the first and second floors are complete. Mechanical, Electrical and plumbing work is currently taking place.
Miller Nichols Library Renovation (2/17)
- The fourth floor of Miller Nichols Library, formerly the silent study floor, is currently closed.
- The second floor of the library is now the silent study floor; this change is permanent.
- For the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 semesters, UMKC Tutoring will be available in person in Atterbury Student Success Center, Room 236.
- The renovated floor will include programs currently housed in various locations on campus, and give students a single location to access programs including tutoring and the UMKC-founded and internationally known Supplemental Instruction, KC Scholars and other UMKC signature programs: Bloch Scholars, First Gen Roo, Peer Academic Leader – or PAL – Program, Men of Color Academy, Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship and the Writing Studio. It will open for Fall 2025 semester.