USM to Add New Upscale Restaurant

According to an article in today's Clarion-Ledger, the University of Southern Mississippi has many projects ongoing throughout the summer. In addition to adding a $2 million new upscale restaurant on campus, the other projects include:

$30 million R.C. Cook Union Expansion

$22.5 million Trent Lott Center for Excellence in Economic Development

$1.2 million, one-mile walking and bicycling path

$2 million, upscale restaurant, funded by food service company Aramark

$350,000 replacement of a street with a pedestrian area

USM continues the trend at most college campuses these days of making the center of campus pedestrian-friendly a while placing parking on the periphery.

Robbie Ward's article in today's Daily-Journal discusses MSU's campus and how parking will be at a premium this year with all of the ongoing construction on campus.