Nash-Zimmer Transportation Center in Storrs Center Under Construction

Construction of the Nash-Zimmer Transportation Center in Storrs Center has begun.

The facility, which neighbors the Storrs Center parking garage, is slated to become a "central stop for local, regional, and intrastate buses, including WRTD and UConn buses," when it opens in the fall, according to the Mansfield Downtown Partnership. 

The transportation center will also offer bike lockers for storage, as well as showers and changing rooms for commuters, according to the Partnership.

The intermodal center and garage is named in honor of the late Dennison Nash and Gary Zimmer. Nash was a UConn professor of anthropology and advocate for the Willimantic/Mansfield bus service. Zimmer served on the town Planning & Zoning Commission, Transportation and Agricultural Committee and acted as a solid waste advisor.

The Federal Transit Administration provided a $4.9 million grant for the transportation center's construction. The Town selected W. J. Mountford Company of South Windsor "through a competitive bid process" to construct the building designed by Gregg Weis & Gardner Architects of New Haven.