Posted Oct 24, 2023, 8:08 PM
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$3.4M grant will expand MSU’s Flint footprint with new downtown building
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A $3.4-million grant from the state will be used to build a new, three-story building for Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine in downtown Flint.
The Michigan Strategic Fund Board approved the transfer of funds in a meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 24, and state officials said the grant will allow Uptown Reinvestment Corporation to construct the 40,000-square-foot building, providing additional office space for research, administration and instruction. Tuesday’s action comes 10 years after the MSFB supported the first expansion of MSU’s presence in Flint with a $5.6 million grant that helped to redevelop the former Flint Journal building on East First Street for the university’s College of Human Medicine. That development was also supported with nearly $12 million in grants from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
Uptown, a nonprofit that has led several downtown Flint projects, agreed in 2012 to purchase the Journal’s primary building and printing facility, which became the site of the Flint Farmers’ Market.
The new building tied to Tuesday’s grant is estimated to cost Uptown $24.5 million, according to the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, which said in a memorandum to the MSFB that an arm of Uptown has also received a $15-million grant for the new construction from the Mott Foundation.
Uptown’s project includes splitting the existing Flint Journal parcel and building the new three-story facility in an area of the property that is currently used for parking, according to the MEDC.
The building’s first floor will be roughly 14,000 square feet of office space, including interview rooms for research, presentation and conference rooms, and staff offices. The second floor -- roughly 12,000 square feet -- will also be used for offices, conference rooms, a kitchenette, and multipurpose spaces for research, the state announcement says. Plans call for the third floor to include nearly 12,000 additional square feet with a similar layout to the second floor.
“MSU anticipates creating 129 additional jobs at the Flint location through 2028, when the new addition will be fully implemented,” an MEDC official wrote in a memorandum to the MSFB. “In addition, MSU anticipates attracting an additional $10 million annually in direct and indirect federal funds ...
“The MSU campus extension would also build upon the College of Human Medicine’s work as the leading public health institution on the Flint water crisis,” the briefing memo says.
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https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/202...-building.html
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