SU changes Salisbury’s skyline

The skyline of Salisbury is now forever changed, courtesy of Salisbury University.

The new Patricia R. Guerrieri Academic Commons now boast the tallest building on Salibury’s campus. The 45 foot cap, a special steel structure that will support 48 bronze bells as well as a performance tower, brings the buildings height up to a whopping 147 feet.

The steel structure that will become the carillon cap once it’s completed was originally just an off- handed suggestion.

“It was interesting because the architect proposed it to the president of the university during a design review,” said Ted Daniels, the project executive from Gilbane building company. “He sort of suggest off-handedly ‘wouldn’t it be great someday in the future if this was a carillon’ and the president, bless her heart, said the future doesn’t really work, I’d like the bells to be ringing when we open the building. So that put a challenge to all of us to get this thing going quickly, which we have so we’re on track now to get the bells in time and open next summer.”

The previous tallest building on campus was the Holloway hall cupola that stands at 100 ft.