Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall, New College and the University President’s House will see renovations in the coming years, the Board of Regents heard this week.

Butts-Mehre, which houses football facilities, is the biggest of the three projects. The plan, which calls for renovation of the existing facility and a 68,500-square-foot expansion, will include a new multi-purpose room for indoor training, Danny Sniff, associate vice president for facilities planning, said in a phone interview Wednesday.

He said “when a person gets injured, they’ll be able to have artificial turf” on which to condition. He said the 30-yard room also will allow the football team to conduct some elements of practice indoors in case of inclement weather.

The project’s proposed budget is $36 million, with half of that coming from the Athletic Association and the other half coming from private donors, according to regents documents.

Sniff said preliminary sketches of the building will be complete by August, and those will be used to raise money for the building’s architecture and construction.

“Basically the project will be put on hold until the money’s raised,” he said.

John Millsaps, spokesperson for the regents, said the plan was an information item Tuesday on the regents monthly agenda.

Renovation of New College is expected to start in 2009, Sniff said. The building, which he said is among the oldest buildings on campus, will be restored in a similar manner to the restorations of Moore College, Candler Hall and Old College, which are all historic and located on North Campus.

“It’ll be a total top-to-bottom, paying attention to the history of the building,” Sniff said.

The project is estimated to cost $3 million and will be covered by several University funds. The building, constructed in 1822, will see full interior and partial exterior renovation. Regents voted Wednesday to approve the plan.

Sniff said all offices in the building will temporarily be moved to other locations.

The University president’s home, located at 570 Prince Ave., also will be renovated, as a result of regents vote Wednesday. That project is estimated to cost $950,000, with $250,000 coming from private donors and the additional $700,000 from the University, according to regents documents.

The house dates back to before the Civil War, and has been used as the president’s house since 1949. It was last renovated in 1968.

“This is a project that is desperately needed for handicap accessibility,” Sniff said. “We’ve got to be sensitive to the history of the building.”

The plan calls for installation of an elevator where the kitchen is located. The kitchen facilities are too small for the house, which is largely used to entertain campus visitors, he said.

“When the people come to cater … it seriously hampers them,” Sniff said. “Since we’re taking out a very old residential kitchen, we’re going to then replace that with a modern kitchen.”