Oregon State University to construct $50 million business building
By Bill Graves, The Oregonian
May 10, 2010, 6:04PM
Artist rendering shows the exterior of the proposed new $50 million College of Business building at Oregon State University. The five-story brick building, scheduled to be complete in 2015, will be constructed to fit the character of the OSU campus and to meet the U.S. Green Building Council’s gold certification standards for Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design.Oregon State University will open a state-of-the-art, $50 million five-story building for its business school in five years, thanks to substantial donations from key alumni.
The 100,000-square-foot building will double the college's space and provide modern professional meeting rooms where students can work together on projects and presentations, said Ilene Kleinsorge, dean of the college of business. It also will be conveniently across the street for the 290 undergraduates in the Austin Entrepreneurship Program at Weatherford Residential College, which offers hands-on entrepreneurship courses.
"This elevates our ability to address some of the critical needs on campus, and it is part of our vision for being a college of business here," said