12 • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2002
Malott Gateway under construction
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An artist's rendering shows the Malott Gateway as it should appear in October. The gateway is the first initiative from the KU First fundraising campaign.
By Jay Pilgreen Kansan Staff Writer
The first piece of the Lawrence campus landscape master plan is well into construction, and should be finished by October
The Malott Gateway, located in front of the Visitor Center at 15th and Iowa streets, would enhance the entryway to campus, said Greg Wade, landscape architect for the Design and Construction Management office.
Wade said the gateway would have a circular plaza that would be used by the Visitor Center. Northern red oak trees would serve as a backdrop, and gardens, composed of a mix of perennials and bushes, would surround the plaza, Wade said.
The plan also includes a 70-foot stone wall engraved with the University of Kansas name.
According to the Endowment Association, the gateway, which has a budget of $1 million, was a gift from Robert H. Malott, son of the late Chancellor Deane W. Malott, to honor his father and mother's efforts to beautify the Lawrence campus in the 1940s.
The landscape master plan was developed in 2001. According to the Endowment Association, it was a $23 million initiative to enhance and unify the entire appearance of the campus. Dale Sauferling, executive vice president for development at the Endowment Association, said this was the first step in a plan to enhance the historic beauty of the campus.
"This isn't an isolated gift or a project that has no relationship to anything else. The University announced last year that
they had engaged in a master plan to develop gateways to the campus," Sauferling said.
The master plan is a part of the KU First campaign, introduced last year with a goal to raise $500 million. It will continue for the next 10 years. Wade said there were two more gateways being designed for entrances at 11th and Mississippi streets and the Chi Omega circle. Sauferling said the plan would be paid for through private funding.
"One of the objectives of the lasting master plan, in addition to decoration, is to improve the signage throughout the campus," Scarrfe said. "It will benefit students."
John Scarrfe, director of communications for the Endowment Association, said the gateway would have practical aspects as well as aesthetic ones.
Along with students, Scarrfe said the gateway benefited everyone who came to the University.
"This is a way, especially for visitors to campus, to really know you have arrived to the University of Kansas," Scarrfe said. "It's not just decoration."
"The reality is such that tuition fees and state resources probably will never be available, nor practically applied to such a project." Sauferling said
Contact Pilgreen at jpilgreen@kansan.com. This story was edited by Mike Gilligan.
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