The three-and-a-half story entry arch at Bellarmine University will be installed May 6 to 8.
John R. Karman III
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Bellarmine University plans to build a three-and-a-half story entry arch at the Newburg Road entrance to its campus.
St. Robert Gate will be named for the university’s namesake, St. Robert Bellarmine, according to a news release. The concrete gate is being donated by Bellarmine alumni Nick and Gincy Carosi and Alban Carosi Inc., a Woodbridge, Va.-based architectural precast concrete firm. Nick Carosi is the company’s president.
The gate is being made of precast concrete with a brick finish. It will bear the university’s name and seal.
The gate will be illuminated and has an interior ladder system for electrical maintenance.
A construction cost was not disclosed in the news release.
Installation of the gate is scheduled to take place May 6 to 8, and Bellarmine’s Newburg Road entrance will be closed at that time. During installation, all traffic will enter and exit the campus on Norris Place.
After the gate is installed, finishing work and landscaping will continue for about a month, the release said.
“Grand entrance arches are a major feature of the beautiful hill towns in Italy’s Tuscany region, including St. Robert Bellarmine’s hometown of Montepulciano,” Bellarmine president Joseph McGowan said in the release. “Hospitality — in its deepest sense — is an exceptionally important value at Bellarmine University, as we regularly welcome new ideas, new perspectives and new people. A grand entrance arch is a compelling symbol of such hospitality.”
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