Rowan University Parking Garage

Glassboro Township, NJ

Owner/ Client:

Nexus Properties, Inc.

Construction Data:

$15 million

O&S Services Used:

Prime Design

Surveying

Structural Investigations

Architecture

Structural Engineering

Electrical/ Mechanical Engineering

As part of the $300 million Rowan Boulevard Redevelopment Project, O&S provided architectural, structural, and MEP engineering services for a new mixed-use parking garage. A public-private partnership between Glassboro Township, Rowan University, and Nexus Properties, the garage is designed to serve the parking needs of both the Town and the University.

Our team redesigned existing plans for the garage and eliminated over 2½ levels of structured parking while maintaining the required car count. This new design created a project cost savings of over 30% and made the financing for the project viable. This portion of the redevelopment project also included the E1 classroom building, which is directly adjacent to the garage and separated from it by a precast firewall.

The resulting garage is a six-level, three-bay structure using a single center ramp with two-way traffic and a one-way traffic pattern on the outside bays, creating two side-by-side helixes for the vertical circulation up and down the facility. It was designed with the capacity to add a floor in the future. It’s connected to the adjacent E1 building through two stair-elevator cores at both ends of the garage, and these stair-elevator towers serve both the building and the garage. Additionally, a third stair-elevator tower is provided at Bulldog Way Street.