Besides requesting construction funds for Phase 2, the university is asking the Legislature to provide predesign money for Phase 3. Those funds would be used to determine the scope of the next phase. Exactly how many more phases will be required to complete the campus is unknown. Although expansion is necessary to accommodate a surging enrollment and an evolving curriculum, the branch campus is not just getting bigger. With every brick, it is forging an identity.
Students find study space in the library.
We've been trying to purge that from our vocabulary. For the last couple of years, we've just referred to it as the Tacoma campus of the University of Washington. The goal is to create the look and feel of being very much its own institution, he said. Internally, it's already feeling like that. Except inside the Dawg Shed.