• The entire complex will be 55,000 square feet, 46,000 of which will be new construction.

• New complex will house the College of Business Administration and College of Education.

• The new academic complex was designed as a “green” building that will be energy efficient.

• Three-story complex will contain seven classrooms with varying degrees of technical infrastructure, a conference room and related support areas for the Centers for Literacy and Family Support in the College of Education’s Institute for Applied Learning, the College of Business Administration’s Centers for Family Business and Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain Management and International Accounting, and a high-tech financial services lab that will function as a stock exchange learning center.

• The faculty offices are designed in clusters for faculty and student interaction opportunities.

• A university conference center area will seat 100 people in a large dividable room.

• A university board room will provide comfortable high-tech meeting space.

• An atrium will connect the wings of the buildings to form one complex and serve as the main entry and reception area.

• A section of the new academic complex, occupied by the College of Business Administration, will be called Bisgrove Hall, after Niagara alum Jerry Bisgrove, Class of 1968.  The name Perboyre Hall will no longer be used on the building. 

• New academic complex was designed by CannonDesign of Grand Island.

• The construction manager is Turner Construction Company of Buffalo.

• The complex will be the first new classroom construction on campus since Dunleavy Hall, which opened in 1972.

Revised 5/06