{"id":43,"date":"2025-12-08T23:38:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/campus-planning-architecture\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:58:03","slug":"giant-leaps-master-plan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/campus-planning-architecture\/giant-leaps-master-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Leaps Master Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The West Lafayette campus master plan focuses on themes that will be key in the future: connectivity, collaboration, vibrancy, sustainability and flexibility.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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The plan is named the Giant Leaps Master Plan to align with the university\u2019s sesquicentennial celebration in 2019 and to reinforce that this strategy will help enable the next 50 years of giant leaps at the West Lafayette location.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Invest in teaching, research and collaborative spaces<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Prioritize strategic renovations<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Enhance open space connectivity and campus circulation<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Strengthen campus identity and gateways<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Giant Leaps Master Plan provides an aligned vision to ensure the campus advances in a cohesive way and works together with strategic investments like the Discovery Park District<\/a> and the State Street Redevelopment Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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