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The University of Michigan continues to invest in infrastructure and building construction and remodeling across campus and beyond. Here is a look at major projects as U-M starts the 2025-26 academic year.

More information can be found at umaec.umich.edu/projects/major-projects/.

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Hadley Family Recreation & Well-Being Center

• Location: Central Campus
• Budget: $165 million
• Construction start: Fall 2022
• Estimated construction completion: Winter 2026
• Project at a glance: Where the Central Campus Recreation Building once stood, the new facility will contain 200,000 gross square feet and include modern gymnasiums, a track for jogging and walking, spaces for weight and cardiovascular training, group exercise rooms, aquatics, climbing areas, courts for squash, and racquetball, locker rooms, support, and administration spaces. The project will allow greater access and opportunity for students, faculty and staff to improve their health and well-being.

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College of Pharmacy

• Location: Central Campus
• Budget: $141 million
• Construction start: Winter 2023
• Estimated construction completion: Fall 2025
• Project at a glance: To address its need to modernize and increase its physical space for academic, research and student support functions, the College of Pharmacy is building a 142,000-gross-square-foot home at the corner of Glen Avenue and East Huron Street. The structure will house active learning-style classrooms, laboratories, associated support spaces, faculty and administrative offices, and student-focused areas.

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Central Campus Residential Development

• Location: Central Campus
• Budget: $631 million
• Construction start: Summer 2023
• Estimated construction completion: Summer 2026
• Project at a glance: To meet the needs of U-M’s growing student body and ensure excellence in the overall undergraduate experience, the university is constructing a 2,300-bed undergraduate student residence and 900-seat dining facility on the former Elbel Field site, between Hoover Avenue and Hill Street. The project will showcase the university’s deep commitment to sustainability through the use of geothermal technology, an all-electric design for both the housing and dining facilities, green roofs, a photovoltaic system, and the achievement of LEED Platinum certification.

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Lorch Hall

• Location: Central Campus
• Budget: $190 million
• Construction start: TBD
• Estimated construction completion: TBD
• Project at a glance: This project proposes to renovate the existing Lorch Hall building and construct an addition in the existing exterior courtyard to accommodate the current and projected growth needs for the LSA Departments of Economics and Linguistics. The proposed addition is approximately 90,000 gross square feet and would infill the existing exterior courtyard. Approximately 73,000 gross square feet of existing space will undergo a deep renovation to address deferred maintenance. In keeping with sustainability goals, the building will be designed to be carbon-zero ready; the building will be all-electric and once the electricity supplied to the building is 100% renewable, the building will be carbon neutral.

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University of Michigan Center for Innovation

• Location: Detroit
• Budget: $250 million
• Construction start: Fall 2023
• Estimated construction completion: Summer 2027
• Project at a glance: Included within the 200,000-gross-square-foot building is shelled space that will provide flexibility and expansion opportunities in the future. UMCI will be a world-class research, education and entrepreneurship center designed to advance innovation and talent-focused community development to propel city, region and statewide job creation and inclusive economic growth by stimulating economic development in the city of Detroit. The program will offer a mixed-model approach that includes both masters’ degrees and workforce development programs that will focus on technology and innovation. The new building will have a basement and six stories above grade. The lower floors will contain public-facing programs while the upper floors will be dedicated mostly to graduate programs.

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College of Innovation & Technology Building

• Location: Flint
• Budget: $10 million
• Construction start: Winter 2024
• Estimated construction completion: Winter 2026
• Project at a glance: The UM-Flint College of Innovation and Technology proposes constructing a new academic teaching facility that promotes technology, flexibility and collaboration. The proposed project will construct a 15,000 gross-square-foot building located north of the William S. White building on the north end of the Flint campus. The new building will house various instructional dry lab teaching spaces along with areas to encourage collaboration and interdisciplinary research.

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U-M Health Rogel Cancer Center

• Location: Medical Campus
• Budget: $10.4 million
• Construction start: Spring 2024
• Estimated construction completion: Winter 2026
• Project at a glance: The Rogel Cancer Center was constructed in 1997 and most of the major mechanical and plumbing systems are original to the building. This project will refurbish eight air handlers and associated equipment, replace a backup air handler and replace booster pumps. The project also includes a renovation of approximately 9,800 gross square feet of the main entrance patient drop off canopy ceiling, replacement of the infrared heaters and the fire suppression system.

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• Location: Central Campus
• Budget: $60 million
• Construction start: Winter 2025
• Estimated construction completion: Fall 2026
• Project at a glance: This project will renovate approximately 134,000 gross square feet of existing space by replacing end-of-life infrastructure, addressing deferred maintenance such as replacement of the majority of mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems within the facilities and bringing the building up to current safety and accessibility codes. In addition, the extensive nature of the infrastructure work will allow for the Ross School to undertake a needed modest renovation for the guest rooms and other administrative, operational and meeting spaces.

— Compiled by Jeff Bleiler, The University Record