Mount Allison is starting a five-year, $95 million project to renovate the Ralph Pickard Bell library. At the same time, it will be building a multisport complex on Lansdowne Street which will first serve as an interim library while the major renovation of the library takes place.
At a Tantramar council meeting in November, new university president Ian Sutherland outlined plans for the project and impacts for the wider community.
The multisport complex will “have a whole host of activities available for university, faculty, staff, students, yes, but also for the community,” said Sutherland. The newly renovated library “will be not just a facility of the university,” Sutherland told councillors. “There will be a new entrance on York Street, and the innovation and creativity lab that we’re building will also be open and a great space for town-meets-gown kind of activities, projects and initiatives.”
