University of Miami Plant Grote Campus

The Coral Gables Campus of the University of Miami is on schedule to complete a large housing project in 2026 and continues to work on more capital improvement projects.

Centennial Village will be a first-year experience for students, said Jessica Brumley, vice-president of facilities, operations and planning. “The majority of our first -year students would live together in the Centennial Village and that first -year experience really get as a community within the residential colleges under Centennial Village.”

As previously reported by Miami today, phase 1 of the project started in 2022 and opened its doors for students on 12 August.

“Phase 2,” said Mrs. Brummley, “we are done with the structure itself.

The construction would end in July 2026 to have students moved in August 2026.

When the second phase is completed, she said: “We finished a little more than 1,100 beds, and in the first phase we had a little more than 850 beds.

The transition with which first -year students are confronted as the first students who live in themselves is an experience that they can share with others.

The completion of the Centennial Village, said Mrs. Brummley, enables the first -year population to “live together and to endure the experience of the first life together from home, and it offers student affairs the opportunity to really involve our first -year students as part of our sticks community and to help them understand what it means to live on campus for the first time.”

The theater art facility, she said, was completed at the end of last year and is now active. “The theater art department under the College of Arts and Sciences actively uses that space.” Within the structure there are a Black Box Performance Theater and exercise spaces, administrative rooms and classrooms.

In addition, Mrs. Brumley said, the construction of the Frost Institute building of the inner floors is also completed.

As previously reported by Miami today last August, the university decided to postpone the construction of a football activities center and instead first look at the expansion of the indoor practice field and adding a weight space there.

Mrs. Brumley said progress has been made.

“Actually, we have just finished building documents and submitted for a permit on the actual expansion of the construction itself to convert the existing field into a 100-year indoor practice field, a football field in a true size,” she said. “Moreover, they add a strength training area to the building, which will be an extension of the existing facility.

“We are actually preparing to do part of the engaging work,” she added, “what a work is to happen before the actual expansion starts itself, and we will start in the middle of next month.”