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Plans for the initial phase of VCU’s athletics village and a new dorm that would add hundreds of beds to the university’s campus are to be evaluated this week by the state architectural board.

Preliminary reviews of the design plans for the first part of the VCU Athletic Village near The Diamond, as well as a reworked approach to the 14-story dorm planned on West Grace Street, are on the agenda for this Friday’s meeting of the Art and Architectural Review Board (AARB).

The 40-acre athletics village’s first phase would include a stadium with a 400-meter outdoor track and natural turf soccer field, in addition to two practice fields. It has been designed to blend in with the nearby “industrial context” of the site, according to meeting materials.

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