Post by 919aggie on Oct 5, 2023 9:37:32 GMT -5
N.C. A&T gets $125.5M for health sciences building — but construction may not begin until 2028
Under the new state budget, North Carolina A&T State University will receive $125.5 million for a health sciences building – but construction may not begin until 2028.
A&T requested the funding as the nation's largest historically Black university (HBCU) has expanded its clinical education offerings, with new programs in health psychology and nursing as well as a partnership with Cone Health.
“Our Hairston College of Health Sciences is our fastest-growing college and our largest college,” Chancellor Harold Martin said earlier this fall. “Most of these academic programs are scattered across several buildings on our campus. We need to bring all of these critical health sciences programs into a single space.”
With a $125.5 million price tag, the health sciences building is the largest of A&T's upcoming capital projects. Next in line is a $64 million dormitory, A&T's first new student housing building in almost 20 years, with construction to begin this fall. The university will also break ground this fall on a $13 million urban community food processing complex at its farm.
Robert Pompey, chief financial officer at A&T, explained that the state funding will not come all at once. The project is set to be fully funded by 2028, he said, so construction may not begin until then.
A&T will receive $2 million in the 2024-25 fiscal year, Pompey said, to begin the planning process.
The university intends to construct the health sciences building in a northwest area of campus, Pompey said. He also that the university would not rule out having a presence at the empty News & Record building downtown through a partnership.
TBJ reported in June that Ryan Cos. US Inc. and TH3 Partners LLC have an option to buy the vacant former newspaper property at 200 E. Market St. with a tentative plan to build twin 250,000-square-foot commercial buildings and "300 to 400" apartments after demolition of the 158,000-square-foot former newspaper building.
With health sciences departments currently spread across campus, the consolidation would free up needed space.
“It will allow us to take some other buildings offline to do renovations or use them as swing space to temporarily house faculty,” Pompey said.
A&T also received a $9.7 million appropriation from the state for the second phase of renovations for Marteena Hall. Constructed in 1980, the building houses the departments of mathematics and physics.
www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2023/10/05/north-carolina-ncat-health-sciences-building.html
Under the new state budget, North Carolina A&T State University will receive $125.5 million for a health sciences building – but construction may not begin until 2028.
A&T requested the funding as the nation's largest historically Black university (HBCU) has expanded its clinical education offerings, with new programs in health psychology and nursing as well as a partnership with Cone Health.
“Our Hairston College of Health Sciences is our fastest-growing college and our largest college,” Chancellor Harold Martin said earlier this fall. “Most of these academic programs are scattered across several buildings on our campus. We need to bring all of these critical health sciences programs into a single space.”
With a $125.5 million price tag, the health sciences building is the largest of A&T's upcoming capital projects. Next in line is a $64 million dormitory, A&T's first new student housing building in almost 20 years, with construction to begin this fall. The university will also break ground this fall on a $13 million urban community food processing complex at its farm.
Robert Pompey, chief financial officer at A&T, explained that the state funding will not come all at once. The project is set to be fully funded by 2028, he said, so construction may not begin until then.
A&T will receive $2 million in the 2024-25 fiscal year, Pompey said, to begin the planning process.
The university intends to construct the health sciences building in a northwest area of campus, Pompey said. He also that the university would not rule out having a presence at the empty News & Record building downtown through a partnership.
TBJ reported in June that Ryan Cos. US Inc. and TH3 Partners LLC have an option to buy the vacant former newspaper property at 200 E. Market St. with a tentative plan to build twin 250,000-square-foot commercial buildings and "300 to 400" apartments after demolition of the 158,000-square-foot former newspaper building.
With health sciences departments currently spread across campus, the consolidation would free up needed space.
“It will allow us to take some other buildings offline to do renovations or use them as swing space to temporarily house faculty,” Pompey said.
A&T also received a $9.7 million appropriation from the state for the second phase of renovations for Marteena Hall. Constructed in 1980, the building houses the departments of mathematics and physics.
www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2023/10/05/north-carolina-ncat-health-sciences-building.html
