UA Breaks Ground Downtown
CONSTRUCTION TO
BEGIN ON $136M
BIOSCIENCES
PARTNERSHIP
BUILDING IN
DOWNTOWN
PHOENIX
Ground will be broken on the $136 million Biosciences Partnership Building at 9 a.m., Thurs., Oct. 16, just north of the Health Sciences Education Building, 435 N. Fifth St., in Phoenix.
University of Arizona President Ann Weaver Hart and Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton will address the gathering and till some dirt for the construction on the campus that is home to the UA College of Medicine – Phoenix and the UA colleges of Nursing, Pharmacy and Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.
In May, the University and the City of Phoenix announced plans to construct a 10-story, 245,000-square-foot research building. In June, the Arizona Board of Regents approved construction.
The research building will take about 26 months to construct, translating into nearly 500 jobs in design and construction and another 360 permanent jobs at build-out.
Plans are for the university to pursue expanded partnerships with industry and multi-disciplinary collaborations with its Phoenix partners in the new building.
The building also allows the university to continue progress on the emerging academic medical center in downtown Phoenix, providing space for faculty researchers who will focus study on the neurosciences, health-care outcomes, cancer and precision medicine.
This is the fourth major construction project on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus in seven years including the Arizona Biomedical Collaborative research building, Health Sciences Education Building and the UA Cancer Center at Dignity Health St. Joseph’s (set to open in 2015).
