Construction and renovation of the building will begin in May and the building is scheduled to reopen for classes in fall 2007. "The current building is inadequate to provide a modern business education to our students, and we're well beyond being crowded," says Dennis Ahlburg, dean of the Leeds School of Business.
Originally designed to serve 1,400 students when it opened in spring 1970, the building currently serves more than twice that number, about 3,600 students. Leeds School classes and offices will move to various temporary locations for the summer and into the Fleming Law Building from fall 2006 through summer 2007.
The current structure totals 100,000 sf and will be renovated during the project. A 65,000-sf four-story addition will be added to the south side of the building, extending it into what is now Observatory Field and the business school parking lot. Additional recreational space will be added to mitigate the loss of some of Observatory Field. The business building expansion will be consistent with the rest of CU-Boulder's campus architecture in a classic rural Italian style constructed of sandstone with a red tile roof.
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