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Philadelphia is home to many colleges and universities, a number of whom are touted regularly for new construction and gifts they’ve received from donors. Others, like La Salle University, you don’t hear about quite as frequently.

This week, however, La Salle stole the spotlight as it broke ground and marked one of the most significant projects in its 151-year history – a new $35 million School of Business facility.

The University announced last November that it planned to construct a six-story, state-of-the-art facility to house its School of Business. The new 87,000-square-foot building has been designed to include amenities and spaces that facilitate the collaborative learning, networking, and teamwork necessary in today’s business world.

The new facility – to be located on the University’s West Campus and will extend the University’s frontage from Olney to Chew Avenue – will include state-of-the-art amenities like a dramatic atrium space that can be used to host networking and social events; a sales training laboratory and simulation facilities; a corporate-style boardroom; a 300-seat auditorium, and flexible collaborative learning rooms, gathering spaces, and technology-equipped breakout rooms that will reinforce interactions among students, faculty, and business executives.

La Salle won’t be the only one benefiting from the new facility, the community will as well. They are estimating that the construction will create approximately 600 new jobs.

To honor the new undertaking, the University held a groundbreaking ceremony earlier this week on the building site at the intersection of Chew Avenue, Wister Street, and Penn Boulevard, off of Olney Avenue in Northwest Philadelphia

The facility is scheduled to open for classes in January 2016. The project is being funded with $20 million from the University and $15 million in planned alumni donations.

Learn more about the new School of Business building at www.lasalle.edu/business/building.

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