Berklee College has an expansion planned in the long-term roadmap it’s developing, but its larger projects are struggling to find funding and break ground.

The Berklee College of Music is in the process of forging its Institutional Master Plan (IMP), a document outlining its goals for the coming years and the first since its acquisition of the Boston Conservatory.

Student housing is getting top billing, but the larger projects outlined by the college are holdovers from previous plans that still haven’t found the money or will to get off the ground.

The most definite project of the bunch is the acquisition of 12 Hemenway Street. The building currently serves as a private rental dormitory, but Berklee wants to bring it into its own system of student housing.

The college has increased its overall number of beds by 40% since its 2011 IMP but is still only halfway to its goal of housing half its student body on-campus.

Owning the property would also allow administrators to exercise a greater degree of direct supervision over a property the college is already heavily involved in. The building would need accessibility improvements and repairs to the facade and roof totaling nine months of work. All told, it would have 120 beds across 63 student housing units.

“Most of the people in there already are Berklee students,” said Berklee CFO Richard Hisey at an August 3 community task force meeting. “The real benefit of this is that it would be under Berklee management, security in particular. We’d install cameras tied right into our command center around the corner. We feel there’d be a strong benefit in increasing security.”

The rest of the college’s proposals aren’t so certain and would occur past the two-year window this IMP covers. The plot at 134 Ipswich Street is currently a parking lot adjacent to a Boston Conservatory property.

Berklee administrators would like to build a 200,000-square-foot building with both academic space and more student housing, but project planning was put on hold in 2020 due to the pandemic. The proposal was originally the second half of a larger venture that was paused due to insufficient funds, then put into limbo long-term when the Conservatory was acquired by Berklee. Richard Giordano, a member of the IMP’s oversight task force, said it was time for the college to figure out what it could realistically do with the land and get to work.

“The conservatory came back to the community six, seven years ago and asked to do a short-term parking operation for faculty and staff. Fast forward to today and it’s a MASCO parking lot. Berklee shouldn’t be in the business of operating a for-profit parking lot. We don’t need a MASCO parking lot on Ipswich Street, we need you guys to build whatever facility you need there sooner rather than later,” he said.

Berklee’s buildings at 161-171 have been in need of repair since the 2011 IMP, but administrators are yet to implement the “substantial rehabilitations” and student health clinic they’d like to have at the site. Crossroads is another holdover, a sweeping plan for a mixed-use building at 130 Massachusetts Avenue with student housing, a performance center and academic facilities. The school still hasn’t managed to put together the money to actually build it, and some stakeholders at the meeting expressed skepticism with the large projects piling up.

The public comment period for Berklee’s IMP closes August 11.