To make an omelet, you’ve got to break some eggs, and to make a new UVA building in the midst of Charlottesville, you’ve got to tear down something else. This junk and clutter represents the new beginnings of the South Lawn Project (www.ats.virginia.edu/southlawn).
At a cost of $105 million, the first phase of the project will see the extension of the Lawn over Jefferson Park Avenue, connecting to the 110,000-square-foot College of Arts and Sciences building that contains classrooms, offices, a café and a 250-seat lecture hall. Also on the site will be a monument to the family of Kitty Foster, a free black washerwoman who lived on the site during the 1800s—the first memorial to African Americans on Grounds. It’s scheduled to be complete by the fall of 2010.
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