A plan by the University of Baltimore to build a new “Center for Learning” cleared a key hurdle on Wednesday when a committee of the University System of Maryland Board of Regents approved a 10-Year Facilities Master Plan for the midtown campus.
Under the proposed master plan for 2024 to 2034, the university’s Academic Center in the 1400 block of North Charles Street would be torn down and replaced with a smaller structure designed to be more energy- and cost-efficient and provide teaching spaces that better suit the ways its students will want to learn in the future.
The master plan was approved with little discussion on Wednesday by the Board of Regents’ Committee on Finance, which had a detailed presentation in September. The master plan still needs approval from the full Board of Regents before it’s officially adopted. The full Board of Regents is expected to consider it on Nov. 22.
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