With the demolition of Wilson Hall, plans to replace the original building with a fresh facility or additional parking are slim to none according to the Facility Planning Department.
“There is nothing that is planned to go into its place at this time,” said Facility Planning Director Kenneth Howe.
Because of the construction of the new university Student Union, Howe says any replacement of the building with a new structure, whether it is a facility or parking, would act as an obstruction to the entrance of the future union.
“With Fayard Hall there and with the new entrance of the union, there is nothing planned to go there and block those entrances,” said Howe.
Wilson Hall was beyond renovation measures with Howe saying, “The building itself was in such condition that we decided that it could not warrant the expense of renovation.”
The demolition of the building, according to Howe, will be more accommodating to viewing and parking near North Oak Street and the future union.
Parking, while the demolition is taking place, has been affected but because of the traffic slowdown due to the summer semester, it has not been a problem for the university or students.
“Parking is right now affected because they have some of it blocked off,” said Howe. “However, with it being the summer, it hasn’t really been an issue.”
Once complete, nevertheless, parking near the site will be back to usual business.
Performing the demolition is Zimmer-Eschette Services, LLC, who has worked with the university before on different construction projects.  
Prior to demolition, Wilson Hall sat unoccupied and had not been used by the university for some time. Wilson was once an agricultural affairs office for the university around the 1960s.
In former statements, Howe explained that much of the interior consists of pasteurizing devices and equipment, being that it was initially intended to house a dairy department, but now lacks any applicable status and is purposeless to modernize. After that, it housed the on -campus offices for the Turtle Cove Research Facility near Manchac.
“A good portion of the building is very difficult to even use or transform into something else,” said Howe. “But between the major maintenance issues with the roof, the antiquity of the building and the equipment in it, it’s just [with] the size of the building. It would cost so much to renovate it for the size of the building. It’s just not practical.”
Paid for through building use fees, the minor building’s demolition project began mid-way through June and is scheduled to wrap up sometime before the Fall semester begins.