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$33M Building Nearing Completion on the UMD Campus

DULUTH, MN-The new 110,000 sf Science building, built by MA Mortenson of Minneapolis, is part of a campus building boom that has seen three other buildings, a major addition and a significant renovation in the last three years.

By Jim McCartney | Updated on November 11, 2003

DULUTH, MN-The $33 million James I. Swenson Science Building is nearing completion on the campus of the University of Minnesota-Duluth campus.

The 110,000 sf building will include computer and wet labs, offices and study spaces. It will replace a chemistry building built in 1948 and the Life Science Building built in 1968.

The building is named for Jim Swenson, a 1959 UMD chemistry graduate. Jim and Susan Swenson, through the Swenson Family Foundation, made a gift of $7.5 million to help fund the new building, providing impetus to local legislative leaders who led the way to secure the $25.5 million in state funding.

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