Completed in 2018, the 67,400-square-foot Downtown Campus Center is the University’s first building in downtown Merced. Formerly a vacant lot, this .85-acre parcel was purchased by the university in 2014.
Heller Manus partnered with Cannon Design to create a new, innovate home for various administration and staff members. The university hopes that having a presence downtown will lead to more collaboration with local and regional industry, and provide much-needed space for the campus’s budding entrepreneurs to hone their ideas. The LEED Gold building is part of the UC Merced 2020 Project, which was approved in 2013.
