 By the middle of the twentieth century, RIT began to outgrow its facilities, and surrounding land was scarce and expensive; additionally, in 1959, the New York Department of Public Works announced a new freeway, the Inner Loop, was to be built through the city along a path that bisected the university's campus and required demolition of key university buildings.In 1961, an unanticipated donation of $3.27 million ($ today) from local Grace Watson, for whom RIT's dining hall was later named, allowed the university to purchase land for a new campus several miles south along the east bank of the Genesee River in suburban Henrietta.Upon completion in 1968, the university moved to the new suburban campus, where it resides today.