The new Proctor Dining Commons is scheduled to be completed for the start of the new school year.

After a year of construction, the 16,100-square-foot facility will come online as the most energy efficient, most sustainable building constructed on Proctor’s campus. Its net-zero-ready construction features geothermal heating/cooling systems, rain gardens to eliminate adding water to the drainage system, low- and zero-VOC emitting materials, skylights for natural lighting, southerly exposure, and conversion to all-electric kitchen equipment to eliminate the use of fossil fuels (since all of Proctor’s electricity is produced by on-site solar or purchased from renewable energy sources).

Thirty-nine years after Proctor’s last dedicated dining facility, Cary House, burned to the ground, Proctor’s Barbara Major (Director of Dining Services) and her team are incredibly excited to begin preparing and serving meals in the new space with its state-of-the-art kitchen equipment, pizza oven, and multiple serving stations on the first floor. Proctor will celebrate an official ribbon-cutting for the new facility on Friday, October 14, at 11:30 AM.