UMass Boston officials hosted a community meeting last week to update the public on plans for its campus and Master Plan, including the still-pending fate of the former Bayside Expo Center on Mt. Vernon Street.

Presently, UMass Boston intends to demolish the crumbling former convention center this summer to create 600 additional parking spaces and a reconfigured shuttle bus area. The lot will be open to UMass Boston students, staff, and visitors again in September. Construction will wrap in November.

If UMass Boston decides to do more with the former Bayside parcel, the university must go back to the community and the surrounding stakeholders for approvals, including Corcoran Jennison companies, which plans to build a 184-unit apartment building of their own and expand the current Bayside DoubleTree Hotel. Both projects were approved by the BRA before the Athletes’ Village was proposed.

The university is also moving forward with its plans to build its first on-campus dorms through a public-private partnership, something planned in the college’s 25-year master plan in 2011–separate from any potential plans for athlete housing during the Olympics. Also in the works: general academic building no. 2, an energy-producing facility, and a new parking garage.

The General Academic Building No.1, currently under construction, is slated to open next spring. It will include a theater, recital hall, event space, and a full-service food operation.

The utility corridor and roadway reconstruction effort is “ongoing,” the school said, with additional way-finding signs being installed and a two-way traffic configuration in use. Construction is expected to finish in 2017. The final two-way roadway will include bike lanes and tree-lined sidewalks.

UMass Boston expects the remaining section of the Harborwalk under construction will be completed this summer as crews finish stabilizing the shoreline.