Because of the access Corl Street would provide to the commuter parking garage project, it is becoming a key area in Penn State's development of west campus. For that reason, Penn State spokesman Tysen Kendig said the university is looking into purchasing two properties in that area. The properties could help make room for a commuter-parking garage and to widen the intersection at Corl Street and West College Avenue.
Corl Street is a critical land area in the project and with the development of west campus, Kendig said.
"We've been pursuing a few different properties," he said. "It's just a concept. We don't have the properties at hand. We don't have funding in place."
Trisha Lang, Ferguson Township planning director, said the two properties were on the north side of West College Avenue on the east corner of Corl Street. Lang said that because Corl Street is part of Ferguson Township, Penn State would be working with Ferguson Township during the possible upgrade of the Corl Street and West College Avenue intersection. "We're looking at road widening," she said.
Lang said constructing turning lanes to widen Corl Street would handle the heavier volume of traffic that could exist when the commuter-parking garage west of the White Course Apartments is completed in 2007.
Kendig said any time a project involves traffic patterns, municipalities have to be involved.
