Campus Center
The Stanford Campus Center
Stanford is reimagining the heart of campus — from Meyer Green to Lake Lagunita — as a focal point of community, engagement, and intellectual vitality. The first phase will create the Commons, a vibrant collection of enclosed and open-air gathering spaces designed to transform the three acres currently home to the bookstore and post office.
Site news
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Campus center to get makeover and new gathering spaces
Stanford Report
April 22, 2026
A vibrant campus hub
The goal of the Commons at Campus Center is to transform the heart of campus into a dynamic hub for the Stanford community. Guidance and advice to planners has come from an advisory committee of students, faculty, and staff representatives, extensive community input process, and informal conversations that reflect a range of perspectives and insights from across the campus community.
Project area
Our vision
The concept of a campus center first emerged from Stanford’s Long Range Vision process. A subsequent community engagement process revealed a desire for a vibrant campus center reflecting iconic campus experiences and the energy of today's community.
Guiding principles
Iconic spaces
The Campus Center area roughly includes Tresidder and White Plaza, the bookstore and post office, and Canfield Court and Meyer Green. Boundaries are intentionally loosely defined and may change as next steps add detail to the vision.
New uses for familiar settings
Getting started
The first phase of the project—the Commons—will create a dynamic new campus hub: four structures, including new looks and uses for the current bookstore and post office buildings, and adjacent garden and gathering spaces for faculty, students, staff, and visitors.