Lipscomb University announces new address: One University Park Drive
Janel Shoun |
Lipscomb University has officially changed its address to One University Park Drive. All mail will continue to flow through the Lipscomb University post office, and mail marked with the old address, 3901 Granny White Pike, will still be delivered to the university campus. The address change is effective Sunday, July 1.
“Our mail will still come the same way it always has,” said Ronnie Farris, supervisor of the Lipscomb post office. “There is not an expiration date on the 3901 Granny White Pike address. This just makes the university a little more distinctive from the campus school.”
The address of David Lipscomb Campus School will remain 3901 Granny White Pike.
All campus drives will be named in the future
The change was made to alleviate confusion among those not familiar with Nashville and to provide better directions to different areas of campus. In the future, each of the campus entrance drives will be named so they can be used for specific directions and can be designated on Internet map services.
As of now, only University Park Drive, the U-shaped drive at the main entrance off of Belmont Boulevard is officially named. Numbers for each building along that drive have now been posted to benefit public safety officers responding to a 911 emergency.
Beaman Library is 100 University Park Drive, the Axel Swang Business Building is 102, the A.M. Burton Building is 104, Crisman Administration Building is 106 and McFarland Science Building is 108. These numbers will be used by public safety officials only. Mail will continue to be routed through one address: One University Park Drive, Nashville TN 37204-3951.
“In addition to the obvious benefits to visitors, the naming of the drive provides an important upgrade for emergency response teams to our campus,” said Phil Ellenburg, Lipscomb general counsel. “Now, emergency responders can proceed directly to a specific building rather than a general address.”
In addition to the address change, the Lipscomb campus will complete its changeover from a system of three phone exchanges – 269, 279 and 386 – to just one – 966 on Sunday, July 1. As of Sunday, callers who dial a number from the public white and yellow pages of the phone book with one of the original three phone exchanges will get a recording stating they must call 966 to reach the Lipscomb campus. Calls to other numbers on the Lipscomb campus, not listed in the phone book, will get a message noting that the number has been disconnected.
Faced with growth that would have required the campus to go to a fourth phone exchange, officials decided to consolidate all the phone numbers on campus to one prefix to create a uniform phone numbering system. This past summer Lipscomb submitted a request for a new exchange, providing up to 10,000 numbers.