Two vacant hill dorms at Commonwealth – Lock Haven scheduled to come down

LOCK HAVEN, PA – The Record has learned that the state is proceeding with plans to demolish two of the three empty dorms overlooking the main campus of Commonwealth University – Lock Haven.

The two dorms, McIntyre and High Halls, are fenced off and preliminary work has begun, the work noted by signage on site, carried out through the state General Services Department. That posting says the work is being carried out as “Demolition of Underutilized and Obsolete Buildings” at Commonwealth University.

Those dorms, along with nearby High Hall, have been vacant for some years as the local school has seen new housing added along N. Fairview Street, this as enrollment has declined in recent years; although Lock Haven and fellow Commonwealth schools Bloomsburg and Mansfield have issued a preliminary report that enrollment is up for the current school year.

A spokesperson at Lock Haven said she would gather information on the scope of the local project.

The demolition project “up on the hill” is being carried out despite the effort of at least one board member on the Lock Haven University Foundation who had appealed to Harrisburg to save one or both structures for other uses but without success.