By Chancellor Bernie Patterson
If you’ve been near the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in the last three months, you likely have noticed construction activity on the former parking lot X at Fourth Avenue and Fremont Street.
Work on the new Chemistry Biology Building began in late April.
I feel a real sense of pride when I go by the construction site — and when I see the Pointer mascot flag flying from the 165-ton crane.
The community can be proud as well. At $75.18 million, this is one of the largest building projects in central Wisconsin. Not since Consolidated Papers invested $110 million in an addition to its Stevens Point Division mill in 1989 has a project larger than this been under way in the Stevens Point area.
This is the first major free-standing academic building to be constructed on the UW-Stevens Point campus in 40 years.
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