Murray State has adapted multiple parking zones in order to allow for completion of numerous construction projects. Many spots have been updated to blue zones and will only be accessible to faculty.

Some projects began during the summer but won’t conclude until 2025. Administration News sent out a campus wide email on Aug. 14.

The parking lot located north of Faculty Hall is closed for construction of the new nursing and health professionals building. E.B. Howton Agricultural Engineering building parking lots have been updated to blue zones only. The south end of Education Drive, located north of both Faculty Hall and Price Doyle Fine Arts buildings, has new accessible parking spaces.

The parking lot located south of 16th Street and Calloway Avenue was updated to blue zone only. The parking spaces located in the 15th and Olive Boulevard lot, directly behind Tap 216, are blue zoned only. 

Four parking spaces that are in the northeast side of the parking lot at Miller Street and 16th Street are reserved for visitors. Station 74 parking lots are red zones with some spaces reserved for visitors. 

Not only were parking zones adapted but so were parking permits. The blue zone is still only for University faculty and staff but allows for parking in yellow and red zones. The red zone is for commuter students, Regents, White and Station 74 residents. 

The yellow zone is for north residential students. Purple zonings are economy permits for perimeter lots, and all permit holders are allowed to park in purple zones. 

Bob Jackson, president of the University, said he asks the campus community for patience while the construction is ongoing.

“If you’re going to grow and enhance (what we do here at Murray State), it will be an inconvenience to some for a time and we apologize for that,” he said. “This is a normal process and what we have to go through (in order to grow).” 

To see the interactive parking map of color zones and accessible parking spaces, go to murraystate.edu/parking.