
Vanderbilt University - West End Neighborhood Beautification
The
West End Neighborhood Beautification project was a reinvention of a
car-centered suburban-style Greek neighborhood into a walkable
destination for everyone on campus. The new plan coordinated the 18
existing fraternity and sorority houses, a utility project that cut
through the middle of the neighborhood and rerouted all the electrical
underground, the construction of three new residential colleges to along
the north edge of the neighborhood, whose completion was reliant on the
utility project and six new houses.
The project was able to provide an accessible path across the
neighborhood, connecting the university gym and stadium to the historic
core, as well as to the front door of each house. A new common green
reclaims the parking space in the center in the center of the
neighborhood. Existing roads were all transformed into pedestrian paths
that can double as tailgating areas and drivable surfaces for move-in
and move-out demands. The university walk/bike path connects across the
neighborhood and to a new transit stop and turn around designed as part
of the south edge of the neighborhood. The removal of the asphalt and
the use of permeable pavers resulted in a 20% reduction of previous
surfaces in the neighborhood.
The project team held multiple campus visioning sessions to gather
feedback from the student body on the plan as well as group and
individual meetings with each of the organizations throughout the
neighborhood to help them understand how the plan affected them.
Project Size: 12.45 Acres
Location: Nashville, TN




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