1996-1997 USD Facts

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Alcala Park

U SD's 180-acre campus overlooking San Diego's Mission Bay is regarded as one of the most architecturally unique in the country, with 18 major buildings designed in an ornamental I 6th century Spanish Renaissance style. The USO campt1s was named Alcala Park after a Spanish city near Madrid - Alcala de Henares. Founded by the Romans as Complutum, the town was renamed Al Kala (the Castle) Nahar (after the river Henares) in 1500 by che Muslims. Christians recap- tured the city centuries later and founded a university whose build- ings became the inspiration for USD's architectural style. All ofUSD's administrative and classroom facilities are located on the upper campus. Ac che ease end are the Alcala Vista apart- ments, che Mission housing complex, graduate student apartments and che Spores Center complex, which includes Torero Stadium, tennis courts, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, gymnasium, weight room and ocher playing fields . Since 1984, USO has completed IO major construction and expansion projects. The former San Diego Diocese building was ren- ovated and opened for business as che Author E. and Marjorie A.

Hughes Administration Center in fall of 1996. The landscaped Colachis Plaza and Shumway Fountain was finished in the fall of 1995, connecting che entrances of The lmmaculata Church and the Hughes Administration Center. In 1992, che university completed che 45,000-square-fooc Loma Hall, which includes an expanded bookstore, a larger mail center, classrooms, laboratories and office space for physics, engineering, and arcs and sciences departments. In 1990, che newly expanded and renovated Katherine M. and George M. Pardee Jr. Legal Research Center opened, a facility chat is double che size of the former law library and reflects che latest developments in information technology. The university completed and opened the 6,000-square-fooc Douglas F. Manchester Family Child Development Center in 1989. Ocher projects completed within the past 13 years include the Alcala Vista apartments (1987), a 156-unic student apartment com- plex; che Ernest and Jean Hahn University Center (1987), a 76,000- square-fooc building chat houses dining, meeting and office areas; Olin Hall (1984), home to che School ofBusiness Administration; che Douglas F. Manchester Executive Conference Center (1984) ; and the Helen K. and James S. Copley Library (1984).

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