McKinly Plaza, a thirty-year old, one-acre paved roof deck, operates as a major thoroughfare in the center of the engineering and sciences district of the University of Delaware?s Newark campus, providing entry to both McKinly and Wolf Halls, but has never been considered or configured as the communal social space that it could be. The plaza has been unwelcoming, un-shaded, and largely un-furnished since its initial construction, and has always been difficult to keep watertight. The portions of this project completed to date have fixed the waterproofing problems and improved the paving, and, if fully executed, could begin to correct its other more fundamental deficiencies. Full implementation of the project would provide shade along the south and west boundaries of the space, and a new transparent glass-walled building entry and satellite food service structure along the plaza?s east-west midline, to make the place habitable, and to provide needed commercial and social activity within it. Completion of the work is uncertain, though, pending decisions about the future development of the area in general.