NORMAL -- The changing faces of the Illinois State University campus and uptown Normal are unfolding in tandem, and they took top billing at a joint meeting Wednesday for town and university leaders.

The liaison committee brings together the ISU cabinet and town council members.

City Manager Mark Peterson said the closed section of East Beaufort Street should open next week. The Marriott Hotel expects to open by Oct. 31, and the JSM mixed-use building on the corner of North and Fell should open next summer, he said.

He also addressed Main Street redevelopment and activity within the Main/Osage tax increment financing district.

The ISU housing and dining 10-year plan ends in 2013, said Steve Adams, ISU student affairs vice president. This year's agenda: Watterson Towers Dining Commons is getting a total makeover.

The towers themselves will be renovated starting next fall, he said. Five residence halls already have been updated: the Tri-Towers complex and Hewett-Manchester halls.

Dunn-Barton and Walker halls were razed to make way for the Student Fitness and Kineisology Recreation Center, with an expected opening of 2011. Atkin-Colby/Hamilton-Whitten halls are expected to be torn down in 2013.

With Dunn-Barton and Walker's closure, ISU now has about 6,500 beds in its dorms. When the south campus complex closes, ISU will lose another 1,500 beds, he said.

That led to a discussion on ISU plans to development "certified housing" -- partnerships with private developers for apartments with campus supervision. These plans only are in the research stage, he said.