III. Land and Facilities Assessment A. Description of Existing Facilities and Acreage The University of Maryland is located in the city of College Park, within Prince George's County. The campus is 30 miles west of Annapolis, 25 miles southwest of Baltimore, and 5 miles north of the border to Washington, D.C. The region's concentration of cultural, scientific, research, political, economic, and agricultural activities and facilities offers many unique advantages to the university's academic and research programs. Interstates 495 and 95, located approximately 3 miles north of the campus, provide direct regional access to the College Park community and to the institution via Baltimore Boulevard, a highly developed commercial corridor and a heavily traveled vehicular link between Baltimore and Washington. The main campus is bordered by University Boulevard (Route 193), Campus Drive, Mowatt Lane, Knox Road, and Baltimore Boulevard (Route 1). Main campus also includes a parcel of land east of Route 1, which is primarily developed as student housing and service functions. The university Golf Course is located to the west of University Boulevard. The facilities at the University of Maryland's main campus, which is the primary focus of this Facilities Master Plan, consist of approximately 11 million gross square feet (GSF) in 262 buildings on approximately 1,200 acres. With the inclusion of off-campus facilities, the building inventory totals nearly 12 million GSF in 459 buildings on approximately 4,000 acres. As shown in Table 6, 65 percent of the total inventory is state-supported and approximately 35 percent is auxiliary. Table 6 Building Overview Fall 2000 Building Inventory No. of Buildings GSF NASF Percent of Total GSF Main Campus State-Supported 137 6,826,170 4,090,322 59.0% Auxiliary 125 3,961,890 2,239,972 34.3% Subtotal 262 10,788,060 6,330,294 93.3% Other Facilities * State-Supported 194 736,711 615,901 6.4% Auxiliary 3 38,341 38,341 .3% Subtotal 197 775,052 654,242 6.7% Total Inventory 459 11,563,112 6,984,536 100.0% *Includes Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, Cooperative Extension Services, and leased facilities.

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