BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin College is expanding and updating its facilities, with three student housing projects and at least two new academic buildings either in the works or on the horizon, according to college officials.

The housing projects include a set of new apartments on Park Row and a renovation of Boody Johnson House on Maine Street, which will be finished late this summer and will be open for students in the fall , according to Doug Cook, director of college and media relations. Construction on the new Harpswell apartments will start in June and finish late summer 2020. The three residential projects will provide more on-campus housing for students and cost an estimated $45 million, he said.

As of fall 2018, there were 36 student housing spaces on Bowdoin campus and 25 academic buildings. Mills Hall and the Center for Arctic Studies are expected to join the ranks in late 2021, with construction starting in summer 2020.

Additionally, “We are in the final design stage to add research, academic, and residential facilities at the Schiller Coastal Studies Center” in Harpswell, Cook said in an email. “Work is expected to begin this summer and wrap up in fall 2020.”

It is still too early to estimate a budget for the academic projects, he said, but they will be funded by “a combination of debt and capital gifts.” HGA Architects will design the buildings.

Mills Hall and the Center for Arctic Studies will be adjacent to each other near the corner of College Street and Sill Drive and across from the new Roux Center for the Environment, President Clayton Rose said in a memo to students and faculty. Once the buildings are finished, Dudley Coe Infirmary will be taken down to open a new quadrangle “and vistas toward Bowdoin’s main quadrangle,” he said.

Mills Hall, named after former President Barry Mills, will include new classroom space, faculty offices, a 200-seat auditorium and event space for about 250 guests. The construction will also allow for the renovation of Sills Hall, according to an announcement from the college.

With the construction of Mills Hall, Bowdoin graduate and former Trustee Stanley Druckenmiller and his wife, Fiona, gave a $5 million gift for financial aid, “a priority of the Mills presidency and an imperative for us today and far into the future,” Rose said.

The Center for Arctic Studies will “celebrate our rich connections to the Arctic” and provide a new home for the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and the Arctic Studies program, which is one of just a handful in the country, according to Rose. At this point there are no “Arctic Studies” degrees, Cook said, but the college is trying to add concentrations to transcripts. Until then, he said, it is difficult to determine how many people are in the program.

The building will join the new Roux Center for the Environment and the Schiller Coastal Studies Center in Harpswell as “significant and unique facilities for the interdisciplinary teaching and study of the environment, the Arctic, and the North Atlantic region, and it will provide new teaching and laboratory spaces to encourage, enhance, and expand collaborative work among faculty, students, and visiting researchers focused on this increasingly important region of the world,” according to the announcement.

All of the current and upcoming projects were identified as part of Bowdoin’s master plan, updated in 2017, Cook said, adding, “There are always construction cycles for colleges and universities as facilities age, as teaching methods and the curriculum evolve, and as strategic priorities are set by new leadership.”

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