Timeline

Fall 1999: A broad-based campus committee composed of Stony Brook students and staff began discussions relating to the construction of a Campus Recreation Center. This initiative grew in response to student survey results that noted the severe lack of recreational facilities on campus.

Feasibility Study completed in FY2000 for a program of 88,400 square feet.

April 11 & 12, 2000: Undergraduate Students conducted a student referendum to begin funding for the construction and operating budget for a Campus Recreation Center. Fails by 36 votes.

October 24 & 25, 2000: Undergraduate Students conducted a student referendum. The students supported a $75.00 per semester mandatory fee to commence upon the opening of the facility by a substantial margin.

November 2000: The University submitted a budget request for $21 million.

Senator Flanagan proposed a bill to get bonding for the construction with student fees as the payment on the bonds.

2002: passed Senate, not Assembly

2003: same

2004: same

2005: Bill was on calendar in Senate, withdrawn and a line item for $19.5 was approved in the budget.

2007: Sasaki, the architect, completed the programming phase for the Campus Recreation Center and at that time it was requested that they begin design phase of the project. The award of this phase of the contract is currently being reviewed by the State Comptroller’s Office.

The project is estimated to cost $37.5 million, which equates to an 18 million dollar shortfall.

In 2008, the University requested $18 million as our #1 strategic initiative in our capital budget request.

July 2008: University President Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny announced that Stony Brook University received the additional $18 million dollar allocation needed for the construction of
the new Campus Recreation Center.

June, 5, 2009: University host Groundbreaking Ceremony with Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny, Senator Flanagan, Assemblyman Steven Englebright, Assemblyman Michael Fitzpatrick, and former university vice president Dr. Fred Preston.

December 2009: Construction Contract approved by New York State. J. Kokolakis Contracting, Inc. awarded contract.

January 4, 2010: Official groundbreaking for Campus Recreation Center.