Prioritized recommendations focus on three main goals. The first is infrastructural improvement renovations to resolve remaining deferred maintenance issues, improve accessibility, site safety, and active underutilized spaces. Second, new opportunities are established to improve visitor experience by promoting site order, a consistent identity. Finally, CPSD report recommendations solidify Snug Harbor’s mission as an equitable cultural destination in perpetuity by providing new program, spatial, and operational opportunities to increase earned income and ensure a fiscally sustainable future.

Heritage Farm, established in 2012, has emerged as an important partner in Snug Harbor’s mission. Proposed changes will amplify the visibility and scale of progressive farm practices on campus. Responsible agriculture, with its deep history on campus, its impact on the environment, and its programmatic synergies can take a larger role at Snug Harbor.

The dome, a derivative of the Buckminster Fuller Dome developed by an American engineer, architect and futurist R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), is a spherical space-frame 3-D sculpture that’s composed of an interwoven network of modular struts to create a self-bracing framework.