RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PHYSICAL MASTER PLAN RUTGERS 2030 VOLUME 2: NEWARK JUNE 18, 2015 DRAFT - 2014 1 PREFACE Rutgers University embarked on Rutgers 2030 in RBHS is considered primarily within Volume 1 although May 2013, the first comprehensive master plan in constituent elements are found across Rutgers. over a decade, and the first to incorporate Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS), created The scope of input was broad, involving survey from the integration of the University of Medicine responses from approximately 8,000 members of the and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) with Rutgers community, over thirty presentations and town hall University in July 2013. The physical master plan meetings, and meetings with many administrative complements the Rutgers University Strategic Plan, faculty, and student groups. prepared in conjunction with the Boston Consulting Group, and approved by the Board of Governors in This study would not have been possible without the February 2014, and the strategic plans of each of leadership of Rutgers University President Robert L. Rutgers’ component institutions. Barchi and support of Chancellors Nancy Cantor, Richard Edwards, Phoebe Haddon and Brian Strom. In Rutgers 2030 envisions development at Rutgers over a addition, the Physical Master Plan Executive Steering 15 year time frame, 2015 – 2030, and is comprehensive Committee, Rutgers University Facilities and Capital in its scope; taking into account buildings, the natural Planning members, Deans, staff, faculty and students and constructed landscape, transportation, and contributed invaluable insight to the development of infrastructure. The report consists of 3 volumes: the project. Volume 1: Rutgers University – New The master plan consulting team included Robert Brunswick A.M. Stern Architects, Sasaki Associates, VHB, Buro Happold, and Toscano Clements Taylor. Volume 2: Rutgers University – Newark Volume 3: Rutgers University – Camden Volume 2: Newark Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 7 ALL ROADS LEAD TO NEWARK 2 MASTER PLAN THEMES 11 3 THE PLANNING CONTEXT 23 3.1 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY–NEWARK AND THE CITY 3.2 CLASSROOMS 3.3 OPEN SPACE AND NATURAL SYSTEMS 3.4 MOBILITY 4 MASTER PLAN FRAMEWORK 57 5 PHASING AND IMPLEMENTATION 95 CHAPTER 31 ALLPLANNING ROADS CONTEXT LEAD TO NEWARK 22 RUTGERS 2030 PHYSICAL MASTER PLAN Ι JUNE 18, 2015 THE PLANNING 3 CONTEXT 3.1 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY–NEWARK AND THE CITY 3.2 CLASSROOMS 3.3 OPEN SPACE AND NATURAL SYSTEMS 3.4 MOBILITY 23 Introduction In the late 19th and 20th centuries, four educational to encourage the enrollment of unrepresented groups. institutions were founded in Newark: New Jersey The enduring commitment to diversity has defined College of Pharmacy, New Jersey Law School, Newark Rutgers, which has been ranked by U.S. News & Institute of Arts and Sciences, and Mercer Beasley World Report as one of the most diverse universities School of Law. New Jersey Law School gave rise to in the country. Dana College and the Seth Boyden School of Business shortly thereafter. Alliances and partnerships between Academics have expanded at RU–N as the school these schools resulted in their eventual incorporation has grown, with enrollment today of more than 12,000 into the Rutgers system in 1946. In the 1960s, the students. The University offers signature programs in school’s various locations were consolidated onto its six colleges, with an emphasis on cross-cutting, multi- current campus in the University Heights neigborhood disciplinary scholarship. of the city. Because RU–N is embedded in the City of Newark, its One of RU–N’s defining legacies is one of diversity. planning context is intertwined with new development The origins of this legacy date to 1969, when the in the Central Business District, and with its institutional Black Organization of Students (BOS) held a peaceful neighbors, NJIT and Essex County College. This takeover of Conklin Hall to protest Rutgers’ policies for section summarizes key elements of the campus people of color, regarding admissions, hiring, and the planning context, including city development projects, academic experience. The protest led to negotiations planned projects at RU–N, student life, classrooms, between BOS and Rutgers administrators, aimed at open space, topography, and mobility. The planning improving diversity at RU–N, which was 95% white context, in combination with the University’s strategic despite a predominantly African-American population vision, identify opportunities and challenges to be throughout the city. Though the agreement was addressed in the master plan framework. negated by the faculty one week later, Rutgers’ Board of Governors responded by establishing a new program 25 FOREST HILL WOODSIDE UPPER ROSEVILLE NORTH BROADWAY LOWER ROSEVILLE LOWER BROADWAY RECENT DEVELOPMENT FAIRMOUNT 1. Prudential 2. Panasonic US 3 UPPER 3. Audible.com VAILSBURG 13 15 UNIVERSITY 1 4. Standard Chartered Bank HEIGHTS WEST SIDE 12 2 6 10 CBD 5. Manischewitz 4 11 14 6. Wakefern Food Corporation SPRINGFIELD/ BELMONT NORTH IRONBOUND 7. Evertile Flooring Company 8. Bartlett Dairy & Food Service UPPER SOUTH CLINTON HILL SOUTH IRONBOUND 9. Ironbound Film Studios BROAD STREET 10. Hotel Indigo 8 7 11. Courtyard Newark WEEQUAHIC 9 5 12. Teachers Village 13. Hahne’s Building 14. Four Corners Millennium Project 15. One Rector Street 3.1 Rutgers University–Newark and the City AREA DEVELOPMENT + DRIVERS The City of Newark is currently experiencing a period of renaissance, with new development ranging from corporate headquarters and distribution operations to housing and hotels. Newark’s population is also growing, reversing decades of population decline; it remains New Jersey’s largest employment center, with 150,000 jobs.1 A significant amount of recent and ongoing development is currently transforming the city, triggered by corporate headquarter projects facilitated by Urban Transit Hub tax credits. Urban Transit Hub tax credits have attracted a significant level of commitment from corporations, taking advantage of Newark’s unique location as the East Coast’s largest container port, with proximity to New York and Newark Liberty International Airport. Corporations that have recently built major facilities in Newark include financial services and electronics companies like Panasonic US, Prudential, Three major corporations – Audible.com, Prudential, Corporation, Evertile Flooring Company, and Bartlett Standard Chartered Bank, and Audible.com, while the and Panasonic US – have currently established their Dairy & Food Service. City’s shipping capabilities have attracted companies main office in Newark. Several other corporations like Manischewitz, Wakefern Food Corporation, Evertile have established offices or distribution centers in This development has impacted Rutgers University– Flooring Company, and Bartlett Dairy & Food Service. Newark: Standard Chartered Bank, Wakefern Food Newark (RU–N), not only in its proximity to campus, 1. Newark’s Master Plan: Our City, Our Future, City of Newark, 2012: p 19. 27 1 BRIDGE STREET BROAD STREET ESSEX STREET BURNET STREET BURNET EAGLES STREET 2 MCCARTER HIGHWAY JAMES STREET JAMES STREET WASHINGTON LOMBARDY STREET PARK MLK JR BOULEVARD JR MLK PROJECTS UNDERWAY AT RUTGERS–NEWARK WASHINGTON PLACE FULTON STREET 1. Rutgers SUSSEXBusiness STREET School UNIVERSITY AVENUE UNIVERSITY Expansion WASHINGTON STREET Rutgers Business School will expand to add three floors at CENTRAL AVENUE RECTOR STREET CENTRAL AVENUE 1 Washington Park 2. 15 Washington Street PARK PLACE 15 WashingtonBLEEKER Street STREET will be renovated as a graduate BLEEKER STREET 3 residence and commons 3. Express Newark MILITARY RU–N will establish a NEW STREET presence in the Hahne’s PARK Building development, with an arts incubator and media production space 4 HALSEY STREET HALSEY 4. Life Sciences II LINDEN STREET STREET BROAD WASHINGTON STREET WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AVENUE UNIVERSITY Life Sciences II will link BOULEVARD JR MLK W PARK STREET the research quad with PARK PLACE E PARK STREET interdisciplinary lab and WARREN STREET teachingWARREN spaces STREET CEDAR STREET RAYMOND BOULEVARD RAYMOND BOULEVARD RAYMOND BOULEVARD COMMERCE STREET but also in terms of supporting development (retail, restaurants, etc). The influx of new development has brought additional development to the city, including market-rate housing, affordable housing, and new hotels, primarily located in the Central Business District (CBD). Recent and future development in the CBD includes affordable housing such as Teachers Village, as well as market-rate housing at the Hahne’s Building and at a new residential high-rise to be built adjacent to NJPAC on Rector Street. Two hotels have also recently opened in the Central Business District – the first new hotels in almost a decade. This corporate development activity has attracted a secondary wave of development: affordable housing, condos, hotels, and some retail and entertainment, largely located in the Central Business District. Of particular significance for RU–N is the new Prudential HQ development. The new complex, located adjacent to the renewed Military Park, will relocate approximately 2,400 employees who currently work E PARK STREET in the Gateway office complex adjacent to Newark Penn Station. The new building brings the Gateway employees within a few blocks’ walking distance from the Prudential office complex at Prudential Plaza on 29 UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CONTEXT LEGEND RU–N/RBHS CAMPUSES NJIT CAMPUS ECC CAMPUS NEWARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT