Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon, in Grand Rapids last week, let the community know that they plan to move forward in the next few years with plans to expand their already successful new medical school and research activities at Van Andel Institute in downtown Grand Rapids.
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Michigan State University plans to invest in building new facilities in downtown Grand Rapids to help grow the school’s medical research programs.
At a meeting of the
Grand Rapids Rotary Club Thursday, MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon announced that the first phase of planning for a new biomedical research facility officially starts this week as a cohort of faculty and students from MSU’s Land Policy Institute and School of Planning, Design and Construction are set to kick off several weeks of initial research today.
“The bottom line of this message today is that we are committed to building more research space in this community,” Simon said. “If everything came together perfectly with design and financing and some philanthropic contributions, I think we’re looking at a minimum of two years before any building is complete.”
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