Master planning has started up again, this time with the word “strategic” (see the project page). Finally there is an explanation (in the press release) of what happened to the Beyer Blinder Belle plan:

The last campus master plan was completed in 1998 by architect Lo-Yi Chan ’54; it was updated in 2001 and 2002. In 2012, a comprehensive planning processes was started, but put on hold when then-President Jim Yong Kim left Dartmouth. Some planning has been done since 2012, including 2017 master plans for the west end of campus and the Tuck School of Business, in addition to a plan for Dartmouth’s energy future.

The press release does not say why the college needed to conduct a nationwide search for planners now if it had lined them up in 2012, but the continuity is reassuring:

The firms [of BBB and MVVA], which worked with the College on the west end and Tuck campus plans, were selected following a nationwide search for consulting teams that had experience working with complex campus settings.