Parking Garage

A planned $12 million parking garage will add 500 parking spaces to the north side of the Mississippi State University campus.

The new garage will help the university provide parking for students, faculty, staff, and visitors and support event parking, according to MSU Parking and Transit Services Director Jeremiah Dumas. The new structure will be strategically located next to Howell Hall, near Humphrey Coliseum and Davis Wade Stadium. On Thursday [Oct. 18], the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning approved the project.

“These spaces will help, and we are adding the number of spaces that data shows we need,” Dumas said. “We also have one of the lowest permit prices in Mississippi and the Southeast, and would like to continue to offer a very reasonably priced permit relative to our peers.”

With MSU’s total enrollment now topping 22,000 students, and hundreds of thousands of visitors coming to campus for various events every year, MSU President Mark E. Keenum said the new garage will help meet the growing demand for parking.

“Because of the steady arc of growth in our enrollment, parking has been one of our constant challenges on campus,” Keenum said. “We’re grateful for the IHL Board’s vision in supporting our efforts to manage that growth in parking demand with an impactful solution that will serve all our stakeholders.”

In addition to the 500 spaces in the parking garage, the university is planning to add approximately 350 parking spaces in a surface parking lot at the north end of the old intramural fields, adjacent to Fresh Food Company. MSU determined the needed amount of parking by utilizing a parking demand and capacity study that was commissioned in 2015. Both construction projects are expected to be completed 2021.