$285m CCNY spending spree will help put college on the map.An era of new construction, including three state-funded projects totaling more than $285 million, is about to get underway at The City College of New York “City College” redirects here. For other uses, see City College (disambiguation). CCNY was the first free public institution of higher education in the United States[3] (CCNY CCNY City College of New York (obsolete) CCNY Collector's Club of New York (philatelic group) ). The efforts will lead to creation of a major science education and research center located in Harlem and a new home for CCNY's School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture. The projects included in the five-year state capital spending capital spending Spending for long-term assets such as factories, equipment, machinery, and buildings that permits the production of more goods and services in future years. budget are in addition to ongoing renovations at CCNY to the Robert E. Marshak Science Building and other facilities as well as a dormitory to be built using private funds. "We are grateful to Gov. Pataki, the State Legislature A state legislature may refer to a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions: CCNY's Presidents page[1] , President of The City College of New York, in announcing the projects. "This funding will ensure that we will become a center for advanced scientific and engineering research in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State, and field the most exciting public school of architecture on the East Coast." Major expansions at The City College include: A new, 55,000 square-foot (Phase I) building for the CCNY Science Division, budgeted at $60 million. The design phase will take place during the 2004-2005 fiscal year, with construction to begin in the 2006-2007 fiscal year and to be completed by 2009. * A 190,000 gross square-foot (Phase I) new CUNY science facility, which will house additional science laboratories for the University's top researchers. Design is slated to begin in January 2005 with completion of the building scheduled for 2010. Total cost of the project is estimated at $176 million and it is fully funded in the five-year capital budget covering 2004-2009. * Conversion of 79,316 net assignable square feet of space in the "Y" Building on the CCNY campus into a new, $58.6 million home for the School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, designed by Rafael Vinoly with state-of-the-art environmental features. The budget includes $53.1 million for construction and equipment. The state previously funded $5.1 million for the design phase. The new science facilities will house many of the programs now at Marshak, which has been CCNY's primary science building for over 30 years. Long-range plans call for Marshak to house instructional laboratories, faculty offices and select research spaces. |
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