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Keep up to date with the latest news about the building expansion and Institute initiatives.
Third Floor of New Expansion to be poured this month
The progress on the front of the building is coming along quite well. Depending on where you are standing you can see the framework for the new elevator, the second floor and most of the third. The second floor has already been poured. The Construction team is now working on the support columns for the third floor with the expected date to pour the third floor September 16th.
The MSU Board of Trustees unanimously gave “authorization to proceed” at their April 18th meeting. Bloomfield Hills-based TMP Architecture/TMP Associates Inc. designed the expansion and renovations. Lansing-based Christman Company will lead the construction process, which is scheduled to begin this month. The new addition is scheduled to be completed in May 2009; renovations to existing space will be completed by September 2009.
Wharton Center for Performing Arts at Michigan State University ushered in a new era on Monday, May 19, with the official groundbreaking for the Center’s 24,000-square-foot expansion. The ceremony took place at 1:30 p.m. on Wharton Center’s north plaza and included remarks from MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon, MSU Board of Trustees vice chairperson Melanie Foster, Wharton Center executive director Michael Brand, and the special announcement of a $2.5 Million gift from the Michigan State University Federal Credit Union.
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