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Processes like methodologies, CI/CD, and dependency tooling don’t just shape how code gets written. They quietly shape what code gets written — often long before anyone notices.
(More cogitation sparked by #HandsOn #SoftwareEngineering with #Python — https://tinyurl.com/HOSEWP2)
#TechnicalLeadership #EngineeringJudgment #MaintainableSystems
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System modeling is a way of thinking, not just diagrams.
Writing things down forces you to re-evaluate assumptions and surface missing pieces before they harden into code.
(More afterthoughts from my book, #HandsOn #SoftwareEngineering with #Python : https://tinyurl.com/HOSEWP2)
#SystemDesign #EngineeringJudgment #MaintainableSystems #CareerGrowth
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Rams finalize coaching staff with Kliff Kingsbury as assistant head coach, Robert Woods on board https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/772933/ #ArizonaCardinals #BrianAllen #cleveland #CoachingStaff #Football #HeadCoach #Indianapolis #KliffKingsbury #LosAngeles #LosAngelesRams #LosAngeles #LosAngelesRams #NFL #OffensiveCoordinator #Philadelphia #Rams #RobertWoods #SeanMcVay #staff #TheRams
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Rams finalize coaching staff with Kliff Kingsbury as assistant head coach, Robert Woods on board https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/772933/ #ArizonaCardinals #BrianAllen #cleveland #CoachingStaff #Football #HeadCoach #Indianapolis #KliffKingsbury #LosAngeles #LosAngelesRams #LosAngeles #LosAngelesRams #NFL #OffensiveCoordinator #Philadelphia #Rams #RobertWoods #SeanMcVay #staff #TheRams
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We now know who the @UGAAthletics will be facing this coming season.
https://brianallenatl.com/the-dawgs-2023-season-opponents-revealed
#Dawgs #SEC #CollegeFootball -
Fred McGriff inducted into Baseball Hall Of Fame.
https://sportsintheatl.com/fred-mcgriff-inducted-to-baseball-hall-of-fame/
#AtlantaBraves #ForTheA #FredMcGriff -
Real America’s Voice host Brian Glenn & Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend in drag.
THIS GUY..is the one who mocked Zelensky’s clothes during tdday's oval office presser. Brian Glenn in a blonde wig and pink cardigan talking about how much he 'liked the pantyhose'..criticizing Zelensky's black sweater with the Ukrainian trident.
The right wing is so weird.
Friday, February 28, 2025
#brianGlenn #realAmericasvoice #zelensky #mtg #drag #dragqueen #ovaloffice #ukraine
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Hey BumbleBeeBri' Your boyfriend #MTG is going to get shot by a #MAGAt because #OrangeShitler is provoking violence against him.
What you gonna do bubba? -
🤔 Why Didn’t #KidCROCKofSHiT
(Aka “Kid Doesn’t Rock”) Borrow A #Suit for the #OvalOffice Photo Op With #DonOLDCHUMPInstead, The 🌎 World got to See 📺👀 Some #HasBEEN #RodeoCLOWN 🤡 standing Next to the Big Orange Clown 😑
Did He #EvenSayTHANKYOU❓I’m sure #ViceCouchPredator J.D. & Marjorie Loser Greene’s Excuse of a “Boyfriend” #BrianGlenn Would like to know.
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As CBS Heads To Late-Night Exit, ‘Comics Unleashed With Byron Allen’ Preps Season 20
#LateNightTV #News #BryonAllen #CBS #ComicsUnleashedwithByronAllenhttps://deadline.com/2025/07/comics-unleashed-with-byron-allen-season-20-cbs-1236466150/
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"Survivor" winner returns to ANF to co-host "ATL Live". #Atlanta
https://open.substack.com/pub/fromthe404/p/survivor-champ-returns-to-atl-tv?r=1j977&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true -
Playlist Rewind: WKLS "96Rock" 5/12/1995 #Atlanta
https://open.substack.com/pub/fromthe404/p/playlist-rewind-wkls-96-rock-5121995?r=1j977&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true -
Brian Allen: "Congressman Buddy Carter just dropped a bill to abolish the IRS and nuke income, payroll taxes, estate taxes, and gift taxes. Translation: a billionaire free-for-all, while the rest of us scramble to fund schools, roads, and hospitals. Who knew ‘tax reform’ was code for ‘let the rich run wild’?" #TaxFairness
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Sure, let's review the Constitution, building on the great work already led by the late #BrianLenihan jnr. Let's create a sane healthcare system, a right to housing, empowered multi-tier local government, and a secular education system. But the unity offer must be for a renewed independent #IrishRepublic, not some diluted mishmash of half-Britishness.
Paywalled original: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/10/22/opinion-in-a-united-ireland-should-everyone-get-to-choose-irish-british-or-dual-identity/
Archived full text: https://archive.is/vaFce
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"The Right Wing Bias Of Western English Language Media"
Turn it all off. You aren't obligated to be lied to by people who look right through you
Brian Glenn is Salacious Crumb, the little shit who lived in Jabba The Hutt's folds of flesh
#UKpol #USPOL #UKpolitics #USPolitics #Media #Journalism #FreePress #Press #BrianGlenn
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#Trump is increasingly benefiting from a #media pool system his aides #control & shape. There are very few reporters in this room right now who are asking challenging questions; the back & forth between Trump & #BrianGlenn, a correspondent for the #FarRight cable channel Real America’s Voice, is a good example of how the White House shapes its own media while claiming to be transparent.
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MAGA Reporter Asks Irish Prime Minister Why Rosie O’Donnell Was Allowed To Move To His Country
#News #Politics #BrianGlenn #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Ireland #IrishPrimeMinister #RosieODonnellhttps://deadline.com/2025/03/rosie-o-donnell-trump-ireland-1236324357/
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I only want to say 🤮🤮
What a rat this #BrianGlenn
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Trump calling on #MarjorieTaylorGreene's boyfriend to ask the first question (replacing the #AssociatedPress who, prior to being kicked out of the #WhiteHouse press core for refusing to cave to the #GulfOfAmerica nonsense, were the traditional first asker of presidential questions for decades) about how incredible Trump's poll numbers are (they're not, actually) is straight up third world dictator stuff.
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@iryna I am pleased that #Zelenskyy managed to throw a burning insult to Marjorie Taylor Green's boyfriend, who was basically heckling him in the Oval Office debacle.
When asked by Brian Glenn why he doesn't wear a suit, and does he even own one - Zelenskyy replied that when the war ends he will wear a suit, "maybe something like yours, maybe something better."
#Ukraine #Trump #Vance #Zelenskyy #USPol #Politics #Comedy #BrianGlenn
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#MTG’s Boyfriend #BrianGlenn Makes Shock Announcement He’s Leaving #MAGA #TV Outlet
https://meidasnews.com/news/brian-glenn-quits-rsbn
https://www.mediaite.com/media/just-in-mtgs-boyfriend-brian-glenn-makes-shock-announcement-hes-leaving-right-wing-broadcasting-network/ -
Has this dude not seen the #wildebeest he's dating? His #girlfriend looks like a creature from the #DarkCrystal. Given that her big, beefy arms could rip his head off, I guess he doesn't want to get on her bad side. #BrianGlenn is the definition of a "#beta".
#MarjorieTraitorGreene #MAGAcult
https://www.comicsands.com/brian-glenn-ugly-liberal-women-2665783221.html
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's hatred of drag shows is very ironic given who she is dating | indy100
#MarjorieTaylorGreene
#MTG
#Drag
#DragQueen
#MTGsBoyfriend
#DragShowBan
#DragShows
#BrianGlenn
#ATunaChristmas
#Twitter
https://www.indy100.com/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-boyfriend-drag -
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend caught in drag video
#IndependentUKNews #MarjorieTaylorGreene #BrianGlenn #DragVideo #Politics #Controversy #Politics #News
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Congrats Brian. Saw the score earlier - thought you guys were toast.
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Chancellor says ‘long overdue’ Carolina North project will break ground in 2027 – The Daily Tar Heel
UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts listens to other speakers at the Board of Trustees meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. Photo by Eva DewChancellor says ‘long overdue’ Carolina North project will break ground in 2027
Editor’s Note: The featured image at the top is from WP AI.
By Regan Butler, University Editor, January 21
@reganxbutler, @dailytarheel | [email protected]
Regan Butler is the 2025-26 university editor. She previously served as the summer university editor and a senior writer on the University Desk. Regan is a sophomore majoring in media and journalism and English with a creative writing concentration. Send tips to reganmb.68 on Signal.
Updated as of 11:02 a.m.
The Carolina North project will officially start its first phase of development this spring and is set to break ground in summer 2027, Chancellor Lee Roberts announced at the Board of Trustees University Affairs Committee meeting on Wednesday. The planned development, in the works since the early 2000s, would act as UNC’s own satellite campus about 2 miles north of main campus.
“This will be the largest expansion of the University since the cornerstone of the Old East building was laid in 1793, over 232 years ago,” a campuswide email announcement, sent to The Daily Tar Heel in advance, states.
The BOT approved a proposal for advance planning spending authority for Carolina North on Monday during its Budget, Finance and Infrastructure Committee meeting. The proposal will grant the University $8 million to hire consultants for the project and refine the design for the proposed multi-purpose tract.
Roberts also said, in an interview with The DTH, that the University favors the site as a “good possible location” for a new iteration of the Dean E. Smith Center — amid contentious debate about where the beloved basketball arena should land.
A map of the regional transportation network surrounding the Carolina North property from UNC’s 2007 Carolina North Master Plan. Map courtesy of UNC-Chapel Hill.What the Carolina North campus will host
The email announcement dubs Carolina North a multi-purpose “learn-live-work-play” area focusing on academics, research, housing, recreation, retail and dining — for both the University and the Town of Chapel Hill. The mixed-use space will act as an extension of UNC’s current main campus foothold, with new transportation plans aiming to connect the two.
The plot of land set aside for the project is roughly 230 acres, set on a larger University-owned site that consists of about 1,000 acres — west of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Chapel Hill.
First imagined in 2006, then formalized in the 2007 Carolina North Master Plan, the development project has been postponed over the years due to UNC contending with “constrained resources,” according to UNC’s facilities website. In the meantime, the 2019 Campus Master Plan opted for renovating existing infrastructure and keeping new builds on the main campus.
Roberts said an increased demand for STEM degrees and the tremendous demand for housing both on campus and in The Town of Chapel Hill were forces that drove UNC to take action on the Carolina North project now.
As incoming class sizes continue to grow, on-campus housing and facilities needs at UNC surge. The chancellor said that UNC’s projected 2,000-student expansion over the next four years heightened the need for space in all aspects of campus life. Carolina North will host housing for undergraduate and graduate students and local workforce families.
“My question is not ‘Why now?’ but ‘What has taken so long?’” Roberts said. “To me, this is long overdue.”
Carolina North’s academic and research infrastructure will have a particular focus in certain STEM fields: the health sciences, artificial intelligence, data and biomedical engineering, with an emphasis interdisciplinary research.
UNC will also partner with the Town to implement the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project by 2030, which includes dedicated bus lanes between the campuses aimed at improving traffic flow. Multi-use paths for pedestrians and biking, separate from vehicle traffic, are also included in the project.
Recreation on the site includes planned additions of “civic, cultural, artistic and performing arts spaces,” and also “enhanced connections” with Carolina North Forest trails.
The Dean Dome dilemma
Via Wikipedia…No decisions have been made about the Dean E. Smith Center yet, Roberts said, but UNC contends Carolina North is a good possible spot.
“There’s no perfect location,” he said.
Before spending a large sum on renovating the Smith Center — an estimated $80 to 100 million minimum needed for a roof replacement alone — the chancellor said UNC needs to step back and consider whether that is the best use of the money.
But, Roberts said UNC is still considering multiple possibilities in what he projects will be a 40-or-50-year decision: renovating the arena, building something new close by, or building something new in a different location.
There has been some high-profile opposition to the relocation of the Smith Center, including from former men’s basketball coach Roy Williams, who made a call-to-action video condemning the consideration and promoting a petition created by community members.
In the video, Williams said his predecessor and the center’s namesake, former coach Dean Smith, implored him to help keep the center on campus. Many community members and signatories have expressed a desire to keep the center in its current location, primarily so it is accessible to students hoping to attend home games on campus.
Roberts said it is a good thing there is a wide range of views on the matter because it indicates a passion for UNC basketball.
“But one thing that’s not an option for the arena is the status quo,” he said.
Funding streams, sustainability
Carolina North projects will be funded through a mix of internal and external streams: state support, University trust funds, revenue-backed debt, private donations and third-party investment, the campuswide email states.
The go-ahead on this project comes amid the implementation of $70 million in budget cuts across the University, due to what Roberts has called an era of necessary “belt-tightening.”
Community members were recently critical of the administration’s decision to close UNC’s six area studies centers as part of these cuts, with more centers and institutes and academic program slashes soon to come. But, Roberts said he thinks these cuts can coexist with spending on a large developmental undertaking like Carolina North.
“I really squarely reject the idea that if we are retrenching in one area, we can’t be growing somewhere else,” he said. “We have an incredibly complex organization, and I think as the world changes around us, we’re almost always going to be growing in some areas and shrinking in others.”
In the 2007 outline for Carolina North, there was a focus on sustainability in construction and maintenance, but the campuswide email announcement did not mention any plans of the sort.
In 2010, UNC pledged to end coal use by 2020, but went back on that promise — and now, the University is beholden to a plan to be carbon neutral by 2040. UNC has seen immense opposition to the use of coal power on campus from community members, notably the student climate advocacy group Sunrise UNC.
When The DTH asked Roberts if the University would pledge to make Carolina North carbon neutral, he said that “there is a lot that can and will be done with sustainability on the campus.”
He also added that a benefit of completely new construction, as opposed to remodels, is that it allows for usage of the latest LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards.
The announcement of this plan comes amid facilities workers at UNC voicing concerns of an overburdening workload, citing fewer specialized employees. On whether Carolina North would spark a proportional hiring wave for maintenance staff, Roberts said the University needs to “provide the resources to maintain our facilities as we continue to grow.”
Next steps
To channel community feedback throughout Carolina North’s development, the University is forming an “umbrella advisory group” — representing “faculty, staff, students, alumni, trustees, former student-athletes, and community stakeholders,” according to the email announcement.
Roberts announced the committee’s three co-chairs at the BOT’s University Affairs committee meeting: Trustee Brian Allen, Gladys Hall Coates Distinguished Professor of Public Law and Government Anita Brown-Graham and Aaron Nelson, President and CEO of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce.
The University will soon seek advance planning funds for the project, and issue qualification requests this spring. UNC projects to begin groundbreaking in summer 2027, the email states.
Phase 1 of the project will include evaluations of “student housing, academic and research space, multi-family residential, hotel and ground-floor retail,” largely through public-private partnerships.
@dailytarheel | [email protected]
See Also: https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2026/01/20/roy-williams-urges-unc-to-renovate-dean-dome-instead-of-building-off-campus-arena/ and https://www.cbs17.com/sports/unc/roy-williams-passionate-plea-keep-north-carolina-tar-heels-basketball-dean-smith-center/ and updates for latest news.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Chancellor says ‘long overdue’ Carolina North project will break ground in 2027 – Daily Tar Heel
Tags: 2027, Board of Trustees, Break Ground, Carolina North, Dean Dome, Dean E. Smith Center, Funding, January 21 2026, Lee Roberts, Long Overdue, Regan Butler, Roy Williams, The Daily Tar Heel, UNC Atheletics, UNC Chancellor
#2027 #BoardOfTrustees #BreakGround #CarolinaNorth #DeanDome #DeanESmithCenter #Funding #January212026 #LeeRoberts #LongOverdue #ReganButler #RoyWilliams #TheDailyTarHeel #UNCAtheletics #UNCChancellor -
Chancellor says ‘long overdue’ Carolina North project will break ground in 2027 – The Daily Tar Heel
UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts listens to other speakers at the Board of Trustees meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. Photo by Eva DewChancellor says ‘long overdue’ Carolina North project will break ground in 2027
Editor’s Note: The featured image at the top is from WP AI.
By Regan Butler, University Editor, January 21
@reganxbutler, @dailytarheel | [email protected]
Regan Butler is the 2025-26 university editor. She previously served as the summer university editor and a senior writer on the University Desk. Regan is a sophomore majoring in media and journalism and English with a creative writing concentration. Send tips to reganmb.68 on Signal.
Updated as of 11:02 a.m.
The Carolina North project will officially start its first phase of development this spring and is set to break ground in summer 2027, Chancellor Lee Roberts announced at the Board of Trustees University Affairs Committee meeting on Wednesday. The planned development, in the works since the early 2000s, would act as UNC’s own satellite campus about 2 miles north of main campus.
“This will be the largest expansion of the University since the cornerstone of the Old East building was laid in 1793, over 232 years ago,” a campuswide email announcement, sent to The Daily Tar Heel in advance, states.
The BOT approved a proposal for advance planning spending authority for Carolina North on Monday during its Budget, Finance and Infrastructure Committee meeting. The proposal will grant the University $8 million to hire consultants for the project and refine the design for the proposed multi-purpose tract.
Roberts also said, in an interview with The DTH, that the University favors the site as a “good possible location” for a new iteration of the Dean E. Smith Center — amid contentious debate about where the beloved basketball arena should land.
A map of the regional transportation network surrounding the Carolina North property from UNC’s 2007 Carolina North Master Plan. Map courtesy of UNC-Chapel Hill.What the Carolina North campus will host
The email announcement dubs Carolina North a multi-purpose “learn-live-work-play” area focusing on academics, research, housing, recreation, retail and dining — for both the University and the Town of Chapel Hill. The mixed-use space will act as an extension of UNC’s current main campus foothold, with new transportation plans aiming to connect the two.
The plot of land set aside for the project is roughly 230 acres, set on a larger University-owned site that consists of about 1,000 acres — west of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Chapel Hill.
First imagined in 2006, then formalized in the 2007 Carolina North Master Plan, the development project has been postponed over the years due to UNC contending with “constrained resources,” according to UNC’s facilities website. In the meantime, the 2019 Campus Master Plan opted for renovating existing infrastructure and keeping new builds on the main campus.
Roberts said an increased demand for STEM degrees and the tremendous demand for housing both on campus and in The Town of Chapel Hill were forces that drove UNC to take action on the Carolina North project now.
As incoming class sizes continue to grow, on-campus housing and facilities needs at UNC surge. The chancellor said that UNC’s projected 2,000-student expansion over the next four years heightened the need for space in all aspects of campus life. Carolina North will host housing for undergraduate and graduate students and local workforce families.
“My question is not ‘Why now?’ but ‘What has taken so long?’” Roberts said. “To me, this is long overdue.”
Carolina North’s academic and research infrastructure will have a particular focus in certain STEM fields: the health sciences, artificial intelligence, data and biomedical engineering, with an emphasis interdisciplinary research.
UNC will also partner with the Town to implement the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project by 2030, which includes dedicated bus lanes between the campuses aimed at improving traffic flow. Multi-use paths for pedestrians and biking, separate from vehicle traffic, are also included in the project.
Recreation on the site includes planned additions of “civic, cultural, artistic and performing arts spaces,” and also “enhanced connections” with Carolina North Forest trails.
The Dean Dome dilemma
Via Wikipedia…No decisions have been made about the Dean E. Smith Center yet, Roberts said, but UNC contends Carolina North is a good possible spot.
“There’s no perfect location,” he said.
Before spending a large sum on renovating the Smith Center — an estimated $80 to 100 million minimum needed for a roof replacement alone — the chancellor said UNC needs to step back and consider whether that is the best use of the money.
But, Roberts said UNC is still considering multiple possibilities in what he projects will be a 40-or-50-year decision: renovating the arena, building something new close by, or building something new in a different location.
There has been some high-profile opposition to the relocation of the Smith Center, including from former men’s basketball coach Roy Williams, who made a call-to-action video condemning the consideration and promoting a petition created by community members.
In the video, Williams said his predecessor and the center’s namesake, former coach Dean Smith, implored him to help keep the center on campus. Many community members and signatories have expressed a desire to keep the center in its current location, primarily so it is accessible to students hoping to attend home games on campus.
Roberts said it is a good thing there is a wide range of views on the matter because it indicates a passion for UNC basketball.
“But one thing that’s not an option for the arena is the status quo,” he said.
Funding streams, sustainability
Carolina North projects will be funded through a mix of internal and external streams: state support, University trust funds, revenue-backed debt, private donations and third-party investment, the campuswide email states.
The go-ahead on this project comes amid the implementation of $70 million in budget cuts across the University, due to what Roberts has called an era of necessary “belt-tightening.”
Community members were recently critical of the administration’s decision to close UNC’s six area studies centers as part of these cuts, with more centers and institutes and academic program slashes soon to come. But, Roberts said he thinks these cuts can coexist with spending on a large developmental undertaking like Carolina North.
“I really squarely reject the idea that if we are retrenching in one area, we can’t be growing somewhere else,” he said. “We have an incredibly complex organization, and I think as the world changes around us, we’re almost always going to be growing in some areas and shrinking in others.”
In the 2007 outline for Carolina North, there was a focus on sustainability in construction and maintenance, but the campuswide email announcement did not mention any plans of the sort.
In 2010, UNC pledged to end coal use by 2020, but went back on that promise — and now, the University is beholden to a plan to be carbon neutral by 2040. UNC has seen immense opposition to the use of coal power on campus from community members, notably the student climate advocacy group Sunrise UNC.
When The DTH asked Roberts if the University would pledge to make Carolina North carbon neutral, he said that “there is a lot that can and will be done with sustainability on the campus.”
He also added that a benefit of completely new construction, as opposed to remodels, is that it allows for usage of the latest LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards.
The announcement of this plan comes amid facilities workers at UNC voicing concerns of an overburdening workload, citing fewer specialized employees. On whether Carolina North would spark a proportional hiring wave for maintenance staff, Roberts said the University needs to “provide the resources to maintain our facilities as we continue to grow.”
Next steps
To channel community feedback throughout Carolina North’s development, the University is forming an “umbrella advisory group” — representing “faculty, staff, students, alumni, trustees, former student-athletes, and community stakeholders,” according to the email announcement.
Roberts announced the committee’s three co-chairs at the BOT’s University Affairs committee meeting: Trustee Brian Allen, Gladys Hall Coates Distinguished Professor of Public Law and Government Anita Brown-Graham and Aaron Nelson, President and CEO of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce.
The University will soon seek advance planning funds for the project, and issue qualification requests this spring. UNC projects to begin groundbreaking in summer 2027, the email states.
Phase 1 of the project will include evaluations of “student housing, academic and research space, multi-family residential, hotel and ground-floor retail,” largely through public-private partnerships.
@dailytarheel | [email protected]
See Also: https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2026/01/20/roy-williams-urges-unc-to-renovate-dean-dome-instead-of-building-off-campus-arena/ and https://www.cbs17.com/sports/unc/roy-williams-passionate-plea-keep-north-carolina-tar-heels-basketball-dean-smith-center/ and updates for latest news.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Chancellor says ‘long overdue’ Carolina North project will break ground in 2027 – Daily Tar Heel
#2027 #BoardOfTrustees #BreakGround #CarolinaNorth #DeanDome #DeanESmithCenter #Funding #January212026 #LeeRoberts #LongOverdue #ReganButler #RoyWilliams #TheDailyTarHeel #UNCAtheletics #UNCChancellor -
Chancellor says ‘long overdue’ Carolina North project will break ground in 2027 – The Daily Tar Heel
UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts listens to other speakers at the Board of Trustees meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. Photo by Eva DewChancellor says ‘long overdue’ Carolina North project will break ground in 2027
Editor’s Note: The featured image at the top is from WP AI.
By Regan Butler, University Editor, January 21
@reganxbutler, @dailytarheel | [email protected]
Regan Butler is the 2025-26 university editor. She previously served as the summer university editor and a senior writer on the University Desk. Regan is a sophomore majoring in media and journalism and English with a creative writing concentration. Send tips to reganmb.68 on Signal.
Updated as of 11:02 a.m.
The Carolina North project will officially start its first phase of development this spring and is set to break ground in summer 2027, Chancellor Lee Roberts announced at the Board of Trustees University Affairs Committee meeting on Wednesday. The planned development, in the works since the early 2000s, would act as UNC’s own satellite campus about 2 miles north of main campus.
“This will be the largest expansion of the University since the cornerstone of the Old East building was laid in 1793, over 232 years ago,” a campuswide email announcement, sent to The Daily Tar Heel in advance, states.
The BOT approved a proposal for advance planning spending authority for Carolina North on Monday during its Budget, Finance and Infrastructure Committee meeting. The proposal will grant the University $8 million to hire consultants for the project and refine the design for the proposed multi-purpose tract.
Roberts also said, in an interview with The DTH, that the University favors the site as a “good possible location” for a new iteration of the Dean E. Smith Center — amid contentious debate about where the beloved basketball arena should land.
A map of the regional transportation network surrounding the Carolina North property from UNC’s 2007 Carolina North Master Plan. Map courtesy of UNC-Chapel Hill.What the Carolina North campus will host
The email announcement dubs Carolina North a multi-purpose “learn-live-work-play” area focusing on academics, research, housing, recreation, retail and dining — for both the University and the Town of Chapel Hill. The mixed-use space will act as an extension of UNC’s current main campus foothold, with new transportation plans aiming to connect the two.
The plot of land set aside for the project is roughly 230 acres, set on a larger University-owned site that consists of about 1,000 acres — west of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Chapel Hill.
First imagined in 2006, then formalized in the 2007 Carolina North Master Plan, the development project has been postponed over the years due to UNC contending with “constrained resources,” according to UNC’s facilities website. In the meantime, the 2019 Campus Master Plan opted for renovating existing infrastructure and keeping new builds on the main campus.
Roberts said an increased demand for STEM degrees and the tremendous demand for housing both on campus and in The Town of Chapel Hill were forces that drove UNC to take action on the Carolina North project now.
As incoming class sizes continue to grow, on-campus housing and facilities needs at UNC surge. The chancellor said that UNC’s projected 2,000-student expansion over the next four years heightened the need for space in all aspects of campus life. Carolina North will host housing for undergraduate and graduate students and local workforce families.
“My question is not ‘Why now?’ but ‘What has taken so long?’” Roberts said. “To me, this is long overdue.”
Carolina North’s academic and research infrastructure will have a particular focus in certain STEM fields: the health sciences, artificial intelligence, data and biomedical engineering, with an emphasis interdisciplinary research.
UNC will also partner with the Town to implement the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project by 2030, which includes dedicated bus lanes between the campuses aimed at improving traffic flow. Multi-use paths for pedestrians and biking, separate from vehicle traffic, are also included in the project.
Recreation on the site includes planned additions of “civic, cultural, artistic and performing arts spaces,” and also “enhanced connections” with Carolina North Forest trails.
The Dean Dome dilemma
Via Wikipedia…No decisions have been made about the Dean E. Smith Center yet, Roberts said, but UNC contends Carolina North is a good possible spot.
“There’s no perfect location,” he said.
Before spending a large sum on renovating the Smith Center — an estimated $80 to 100 million minimum needed for a roof replacement alone — the chancellor said UNC needs to step back and consider whether that is the best use of the money.
But, Roberts said UNC is still considering multiple possibilities in what he projects will be a 40-or-50-year decision: renovating the arena, building something new close by, or building something new in a different location.
There has been some high-profile opposition to the relocation of the Smith Center, including from former men’s basketball coach Roy Williams, who made a call-to-action video condemning the consideration and promoting a petition created by community members.
In the video, Williams said his predecessor and the center’s namesake, former coach Dean Smith, implored him to help keep the center on campus. Many community members and signatories have expressed a desire to keep the center in its current location, primarily so it is accessible to students hoping to attend home games on campus.
Roberts said it is a good thing there is a wide range of views on the matter because it indicates a passion for UNC basketball.
“But one thing that’s not an option for the arena is the status quo,” he said.
Funding streams, sustainability
Carolina North projects will be funded through a mix of internal and external streams: state support, University trust funds, revenue-backed debt, private donations and third-party investment, the campuswide email states.
The go-ahead on this project comes amid the implementation of $70 million in budget cuts across the University, due to what Roberts has called an era of necessary “belt-tightening.”
Community members were recently critical of the administration’s decision to close UNC’s six area studies centers as part of these cuts, with more centers and institutes and academic program slashes soon to come. But, Roberts said he thinks these cuts can coexist with spending on a large developmental undertaking like Carolina North.
“I really squarely reject the idea that if we are retrenching in one area, we can’t be growing somewhere else,” he said. “We have an incredibly complex organization, and I think as the world changes around us, we’re almost always going to be growing in some areas and shrinking in others.”
In the 2007 outline for Carolina North, there was a focus on sustainability in construction and maintenance, but the campuswide email announcement did not mention any plans of the sort.
In 2010, UNC pledged to end coal use by 2020, but went back on that promise — and now, the University is beholden to a plan to be carbon neutral by 2040. UNC has seen immense opposition to the use of coal power on campus from community members, notably the student climate advocacy group Sunrise UNC.
When The DTH asked Roberts if the University would pledge to make Carolina North carbon neutral, he said that “there is a lot that can and will be done with sustainability on the campus.”
He also added that a benefit of completely new construction, as opposed to remodels, is that it allows for usage of the latest LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards.
The announcement of this plan comes amid facilities workers at UNC voicing concerns of an overburdening workload, citing fewer specialized employees. On whether Carolina North would spark a proportional hiring wave for maintenance staff, Roberts said the University needs to “provide the resources to maintain our facilities as we continue to grow.”
Next steps
To channel community feedback throughout Carolina North’s development, the University is forming an “umbrella advisory group” — representing “faculty, staff, students, alumni, trustees, former student-athletes, and community stakeholders,” according to the email announcement.
Roberts announced the committee’s three co-chairs at the BOT’s University Affairs committee meeting: Trustee Brian Allen, Gladys Hall Coates Distinguished Professor of Public Law and Government Anita Brown-Graham and Aaron Nelson, President and CEO of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce.
The University will soon seek advance planning funds for the project, and issue qualification requests this spring. UNC projects to begin groundbreaking in summer 2027, the email states.
Phase 1 of the project will include evaluations of “student housing, academic and research space, multi-family residential, hotel and ground-floor retail,” largely through public-private partnerships.
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