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Calif., N.J. Schools See Construction Funding Boost

Sacramento, Calif. — State education agencies in California and New Jersey were recently awarded more than $675 million in school construction funds.
In Sacramento, the State Allocation Board announced that it has allocated $408 million in matching funds for 78 shovel-ready school construction projects in 42 school districts. These projects are expected to create more than 7,000 new jobs.
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University of Missouri Opens New Student Union

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The University of Missouri-Kansas City recently opened a new $38.3 million, 109,000-square-foot Student Union building. Design firm Gould Evans and builder McCownGordon Construction, both of Kansas City, collaborated to complete the design-build project on a 17-month accelerated timeline.
 
Inside the student fee-funded building are a 329-seat theater, three-story daylit atrium, bookstore, coffee house, kitchen and dining facilities, and offices for student organizations.

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U-Conn Trustees Approve Basketball Practice Facility

 STORRS, Conn. — The University of Connecticut’s Board of Trustees have approved spending $3 million in private donations to design a new basketball practice facility, slated for a site behind the Harry A. Gampel Pavilion, the home of the Huskies’ men’s and women’s basketball teams.
 
The project, which has been in the works for several years, has a budget of approximately $25 million, according to the university’s athletics director, Jeff Hathaway.

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