Ball State's College of Health will be under construction soon.(Photo: Ball State University)
MUNCIE — The state Legislature has appropriated $87.5 million for a new 175,000-square-feet STEM building to house Ball State University's biology, chemistry and geology departments.
The funding allows the university to continue to vacate the outdated Cooper Science Complex, which has been called "an eyesore," rigid and an "energy hog" that would be difficult to renovate.
Lawmakers two years ago earmarked $62.5 million to construct another, 165,000-square-feet building to house the university's new college of health. It will be built first and will include nursing/health sciences programs.
Both the STEM building and the health building will be built in a four-block area of Martin, Dill and Dicks streets south of Riverside Avenue.
New health clinics and science labs are critical to Ball State's future, campus master plan consultants said several years ago.
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