The Arizona Board of Regents unanimously approved yesterday three new research construction projects that will cost more than $170 million when coupled with improvements that would connect them to campus.
Regents also authorized the university to spend more than $250,000 to buy each of three properties lying on areas those buildings will occupy, and to use eminent domain to take over that land if tenants don't want to move.
The move paves the way for construction to begin on the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Drachman Hall and an expansion to the Chemistry building. Combined, the three projects will add more than 360,000 square feet of research and classroom space.
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