The long-anticipated economic boost to Grand Rapids’ core will begin this fall as 50 med students, and several faculty and sought-after researchers (many of them with their families) move to the city to teach and attend classes at the MSU medical school. The influx of people and money, in fact, already has begun even though the school just began rising on Health Hill.
According to excerpts from the story:
Concrete is now being poured to support the steel framework of what will become the Secchia Center, the future home of Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine. Meanwhile, medical school faculty are being recruited and trained and the finishing touches are being applied to the academic program.
The first 50 second-year medical students will begin their studies here in August at the med school’s temporary headquarters at 234 N. Division Ave. while they await completion of the $90 million building that will overlook the Medical Mile from its perch atop the five-story parking deck that’s part of the Michigan Street Development project.
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