Construction is underway on a $20 million expansion at the downtown campus of Grant MacEwan University. The 5000 square-metre addition will be built on the West-parkade on 109 street between 104 and 105 avenues.
“This will create much needed space for teaching and learning,” said Dr. Paul Byrne, President & CEO of Grant MacEwan University in a press release. “By moving staff we will free up space for students and faculty and help bring our students and faculty closer together.”
Funding for the project is coming from a savings account set up for school expansion, with $1 million in funding from the federal government’s Knowledge Infrastructure Program.
Byrne said in the release that the goal of the expansion is to eventually centralize the arts and communications programs at the downtown campus.
“This is the preliminary phase of our vision for a Single Sustainable Campus for downtown Edmonton. Eventually all students, staff and faculty from the Centre for the Arts & Communications, South Campus and the Alberta College Campus will be moved to the downtown location.”
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