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Halifax Regional Municipality is announcing the conclusion of a significant civic addressing project at Mount Saint Vincent University.
Campus buildings previously under one civic address (166 Bedford Highway) now have individual civic addresses to assist first responders and students.
This initiative will mean improvements in wayfinding, including for first responders who previously were met by campus security at the Bedford Highway entrance and escorted to their emergency destination.
First responders were called to the campus approximately 1,000 times in the past five years, reflecting the need for an efficient means of locating buildings.
Over the past several months, staff with the municipal civic addressing department worked with the Mount, Canada Post, Bell Aliant, Eastlink, 911 Emergency Services (Fire, Police, EHS), Halifax Regional Water Commission, and Nova Scotia Power to implement the new addresses.
The new civic addresses were assigned to each residential and academic building on campus previously without a civic address. In addition to the new civic addresses assigned to current streets, two previously unnamed roadways were also given official street names. They are Lumpkin Road (in tribute to past president Dr. Ramona Lumpkin), and Residence Walk.
The newly named streets and/or civic addresses are:
- Centre for Applied Research in Human Health – 47 College Rd. (previously 2 Melody Dr.)
- Seton Annex – 95 College Rd.
- Evaristus Hall – 145 College Rd.
- E. Margaret Fulton Communications Centre – 15 Lumpkin Rd.
- Margaret Norrie McCain Centre – 51 Lumpkin Rd. (previously 148 Bedford Highway)
- Rosaria Student Centre – 131 Lumpkin Rd.
- Birch 1 (residence) – 45 Residence Walk
- Birch 2 (residence) – 39 Residence Walk
- Birch 3 (residence) – 33 Residence Walk
- Birch 4 (residence) – 9 Residence Walk
- Birch 5 (residence) – 7 Residence Walk
- Assisi Hall – 85 Seton Rd.
- Westwood Residence – 161 Seton Rd.
- Art Landry Building – 163 Seton Rd.
- The Meadows – 175 Seton Rd.
Similar wayfinding improvement projects are anticipated in the future for other major universities and medical complexes in the municipality.