Bowie State University
Bowie, Maryland
As part of a team under the direction of Kling, the
architectural firm completing a campus-wide facilities
master plan for the University, Mr. Esposito and Mr.
Fellingham assessed existing indoor and outdoor
athletic, physical education, and recreation facilities
of this Division II University relative to current and
planned programs. Dr. Linhart assisted in the
application of facility planning guidelines. Concluding
that the athletic facilities were inadequate,
insufficient, and outdated and that they did not match
the needs of the athletic and recreation programs of the
University, ICAC recommended:
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Construction of a 61,895 NASF, 85,700 GSF Field
House to address issues related to overall
increasing numbers of students, increased numbers of
resident students, and constrained space in the
existing James Gymnasium and would include offices
for the Athletics Department and locker room support
for most of the teams, a NCAA-sized 200 meter 6-lane
track with 4 tennis courts or 3 basketball courts
inside the track, a Sports Medicine facility, and
officials and team lockers, lounge, and support
space;
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Renovation of Outdoor Facilities to expand
seating in the football stadium, resurface the
outdoor track, provide an artificial turf field for
year-round use, and redesign the unused baseball
field into softball practice and game fields with
lighting, dugouts, spectator seating, fencing, and
press box;
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Construction of a 40,270 NASF, 62,000 GSF
Convocation Center seating 4,000 to support
University community events, with a catering kitchen
and lounges at the arena and press box levels for
Presidential receptions, and the men's and women's
basketball programs; and
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Renovation of 62,797 NASF, 102,135 GSF James
Gymnasium to improve the building's functional
organization and relationships, address
accessibility issues, and make it an inviting place
for students taking physical education classes or
recreating, with classrooms, a climbing wall, glass
walls on the racquetball courts, lounges with food
kiosks, while retaining its support for the women's
volleyball team.
Views of Bowie State University's Athletic
Facilities
Mr. Esposito and Dr. Linhart were also responsible for
the facilities needs assessment and capital project
recommendations for all the remaining academic and
administrative units of the University and assisting
Kling in completion of the Master Plan. They found that,
despite recent campus additions of the Center for
Learning and Technology (programmed by Dr. Linhart) and
the Computer Science Building (programmed by Mr.
Esposito), most of Bowie's remaining facilities and
infrastructure did not meet the educational,
administrative, student support, physical education,
athletics, or recreational requirements typically
associated with living and learning in the 21st century
and found at other institutions-both within the State of
Maryland and its peers.
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