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11th Street Mall opens
Students did the honors at the ribbon-cutting ceremony held to celebrate the grand opening of the 11th Street Mall that runs between Cobeen and Carpenter halls.
Campus celebrated the grand opening of the 11th Street Mall this winter. It was created when the Wisconsin Department of Transportation redesigned 11th Street, previously a busy roadway that ran between Carpenter and Cobeen residence halls from Wells Street to Wisconsin Avenue. The DOT “wiggled” 11th Street so that it now runs east of Carpenter and reconnects to the original 11th Street intersection at Tory Hill. That opened up a section of land between the residence halls, and the university developed the mall area. Students quickly claimed the new green space for tossing Frisbees or just hanging out.
This is just one result of the state of Wisconsin’s interchange reconstruction project that began in 2004 and will be finished in 2008. The project is massive and has included rebuilding I-94 East and West and I-43 North and South. The highways border Marquette’s campus to the south and to the east.
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