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1 Welcome! Community Outreach Meeting Purpose: To inform Medford & Somerville neighbors about: o Programs & resources available to the community o Ongoing & future initiatives at Tufts To solicit your feedback and input

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Welcome!

  • Community Outreach Meeting Purpose:
  • To inform Medford & Somerville neighbors about:
  • Programs & resources available to the community
  • Ongoing & future initiatives at Tufts
  • To solicit your feedback and input
  • Presenters:
  • Rocco DiRico, Director of Government & Community Relations
  • Gretchen Von Grossmann, Director of Capital Programs
  • Ruth Bennett, Director of Strategic Capital Programs
  • Lois Stanley, Director of Campus Planning

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Feedback From Last Year

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  • Annual Community Presentations
  • Annual Community Benefits Report
  • Updated off-campus brochure to educate students

living in the community

  • Increased visibility of public events through

enhanced social media channels

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Government & Community Relations

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  • Rocco DiRico – Director
  • Liza Perry – Associate Director
  • Leah Boudreau – Administrative Coordinator

We Moved! 14 Capen Street, 2nd floor Medford MA, 02155

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Agenda

  • Part One – Tufts in the Community
  • Part Two – Ongoing & New Projects
  • Part Three – Residential Projects
  • Part Four – Upcoming Events & Community Input

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PART ONE

Tufts in the Community

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Four Campuses

Medford/Somerville Campus Cummings Veterinary School– Grafton School of the Museum of Fine Arts– Fenway, Boston Health Sciences Campus – Chinatown, Boston

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Tufts in the Community

  • 2,644 employees working on the Medford/ Somerville campus
  • 838 Tufts employees live in Medford & Somerville
  • $59M in salary paid to Medford & Somerville residents

annually

  • 2000+ Tufts alumni live in Medford and Somerville
  • 53 Current Tufts undergrads from Medford & Somerville

receiving $1.9M in financial aid

  • $2.75M in voluntary contributions over the last 5 years
  • $1.7M in property taxes annually
  • $5M in community benefits

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50+ Community Partners

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50+ Community Events Annually

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Tufts Neighborhood Service Fund

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  • Tufts Community Grant program for organizations in Medford,

Somerville, Boston and Grafton

  • All organizations have Tufts volunteers
  • Almost $200,000 have been awarded over the last 10 years
  • Funded entirely

by employee donations

  • Over 30 grants

awarded per year

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Community Programs

  • Tisch College
  • STEM Ambassadors
  • Tisch Scholars
  • Research Programs
  • Music Programs
  • Read by the River
  • FOCUS
  • Super Arts Saturday
  • Let’s Get Ready - SAT Prep
  • Community Audit Program

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Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS)

  • Student run umbrella organization for 35 organizations,

comprised of 1000+ student volunteers

  • Focus is on community service and outreach
  • Events and organizations run by LCS include:
  • Kids Day
  • Halloween on the Hill
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Tufts Food Rescue
  • Tutoring program

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Athletic Facilities

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Over 600 hours of youth sporting events hosted on campus

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PART TWO

Non-Residential Construction Projects

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Ongoing Projects

Barnum-Dana Renovation

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Ongoing Projects

527 Boston Avenue Garage

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New Projects

Squash Courts Addition to Athletics

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New Projects

Cummings Building

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Cummings Building

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  • New 150,000 sq. ft.

academic building

  • Construction to start

June 2019, completion Summer 2021

  • Café open to the public
  • Public plaza on

College Ave.

  • Access from Burget Ave.

to College Ave.

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Sustainability & Resilience

Central Energy Plant Science & Engineering Center

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Central Energy Plant

  • Completed in Spring of

2018

  • 14% reduction in

greenhouse gas emissions

  • Reduces energy cost by 20%
  • Enhanced resiliency –

power continuity during an

  • utage
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Sustainability & Resilience

Central Energy Plant Science & Engineering Center

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  • Carbon neutrality by 2050
  • Addition of solar panels to Science and Engineering

Complex (SEC) and Lewis Hall

  • Office of Sustainability
  • LEED Certified buildings built in recent past:
  • CLIC – 574 Boston Ave
  • SEC – 200 College Ave

Collaborative Learning & Innovation Complex Science & Engineering Complex

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PART THREE

Residential Construction Projects

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Housing Program Overview

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  • 100% of 1st- and 2nd- year students live on

campus

  • Residential halls average 200 beds
  • Goal of adding 600 beds
  • Fall 2017 – Fall 2019:
  • 440 beds created
  • 760 beds improved
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Increase in Undergraduate Beds on Campus

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  • Fall 2016:

3,440 beds

  • Fall 2017:

+ 90 3,530 beds

  • Fall 2018:

+ 80 3,610 beds

  • Fall 2019:

+ 270 3,890 beds

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Housing Goal of 600 Beds

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Residential Projects 2017-2019 Project Number of Beds Bed optimization 162 beds Major renovations to existing dorms 114 beds CoHo Medford (woodframe conversions) 141 beds 123 Packard Ave 20 beds Total 437 beds Projected Additional Housing Project Number of Beds

Feasibility study is underway for remaining beds

163 beds

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Bed Optimization

  • Metcalf​
  • Richardson
  • West Hall​
  • Wren Hall​
  • Bush
  • Harleston
  • Haskell
  • Hodgdon

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  • Identified efficiencies in existing dorms to

increase beds

  • Total of 162 new beds in 8 dorms in summer

2017 and summer 2018:

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Major Housing Renovations

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  • Combination of capital and deferred

maintenance funding

  • Net addition of 114 new beds in 3 dorms in

summer 2018 and 2019 Houston Miller Stratton

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CoHo - Medford

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  • Apartment-style housing for Juniors and Seniors
  • Conversion of 14 Tufts-owned houses adjacent to

campus

  • Total of 141 new beds between spring 2018 and

summer 2019

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123 Packard Avenue, Somerville

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  • Recent Tufts property acquisition near the

corner of Professors’ Row

  • Conversion of former Theta Delta Chi fraternity

house into a dorm

  • Creating 20 beds

in summer 2019

  • University Zoning

District

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PART FOUR

Upcoming Events & Community Input

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Upcoming Events

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  • Tufts Kids Day – April 6, 2019
  • Tufts Neighborhood Service Fund Reception – April 26, 2019
  • Outdoor Movie Night – April 27, 2019
  • Tuftonia’s Day Carnival – April 29, 2019
  • Commencement – May 19, 2019
  • Summer Movie Night – June 21, 2019
  • Tufts Community Day – September 22, 2019 – SAVE THE DATE!
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We want to hear from YOU!

  • Offer us your feedback via:
  • Open forum tonight
  • Leave your comments with us
  • Contact Community Relations:

Email: communityrelations@tufts.edu Phone: 617-627-3780 This presentation will be available online: communityrelations.tufts.edu

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Resources

www.tufts.edu communityrelations.tufts.edu www.construction.tufts.edu Subscribe to our E-Newsletter: Communityrelations.tufts.edu/newsletter Follow us @TuftsCommunity

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