Exterior of the Hodge Building at the Kelley School of Business. Jeremy Hogan | Herald-Times
The doors where undergraduates once entered the Kelley School of Business are gone.
In their place is now where hallways meet and open to a three-level common area. It’s one aspect of the $32.5 million expansion project that adds space for the growing needs of the business school, but keeps to the aesthetic of the Indiana University campus. And it’s nearly complete.
“It’s all finishing touches,” said Teresa Kase, Kelley’s assistant dean for finance and operations.
The expansion will be complete at the beginning of August, she said. Fee Lane, which was one-way traffic since the expansion construction started, reopened to two-way traffic last week. The only major thing remaining is the landscaping, Kase said.
Started in May 2012, the 90,000-square-foot expansion on four stories adds classrooms, meeting spaces and career training offices to the undergraduate business building in a L-shape along 10th Street and Fee Lane, moving the main entrance to face Fee.
Renovations of the existing building, built in the mid-1960s, are just beginning. Work started this May and will be done in phases until fall of 2016, Kase said. The total cost of the renovation and expansion is $60 million, and although costs are covered, Kase said there are still donor naming opportunities throughout the building.
The increase in space — more than 1,000 seats among 16 classrooms — will allow for at least 100 more students per academic year, bumping the undergraduate program up to about 5,000 students, plus the students who have business minors, Kase said.
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