Wayne State University - Future Development

Future Development

As part of the "Wayne First" campaign, Wayne State currently has five major developments in process on the main campus.

• Construction is COMPLETE at the site behind the University Towers apartment for development of the new South University Village, a 155,000-square-foot (14,400 m2), five-story, mixed-use building. This now has luxury style apartments on the 2nd-5th floors as well as retain on the first floor. An art supplies store, Starters Bar and Grill, Radio shack, Biggby Coffee, 5/3rd Bank, as well as signs for an up and coming Fatburger occupy the retail space.
  • Phase Two will add another $20 million of new construction in 2010-2012 with a second five-story apartment or condominium project.
• The School of Business Administration will receive a new home, including two 250-student auditoriums, group study locations, and new faculty offices.
• COMPLETE* The College of Engineering plans to build the 81,700 sq ft (7,590 m2). Marvin Danto Engineering Development Center for research and development programs. Danto contributed $3 million to the project, earning the namesake. New labs to occupy the EDC include the Urban Infrastructure Lab, the Advanced Propulsion and Alternative Technology Lab, the Nanotechnology Lab and the Smart Sensors and Integrated Microsystems Lab. Total cost: $27.3 million.
• The Law School will receive new classrooms and offices, as well as the new Center for Civil Rights, which will be housed in a proposed building named for Judge Damon J. Keith.
• COMPLETE*The School of Medicine broke ground in September, 2007 for the Richard J. Mazurek, MD Medical Education Commons, which houses the Vera P. Shiffman Medical Library, student computing laboratories, examination and study areas, simulation labs, as well as a large multi-purpose auditorium.
• COMPLETE*On September 18, 2009, university leaders broke ground on $30 million A. Paul Schaap Chemistry Building and lecture hall, phase two of the comprehensive $42 million expansion and renovation to the existing chemistry building. This expansion will include a new, 150-person auditorium equipped with high-tech audio-visual and teleconferencing capabilities and office space for administrative and student services support staff. Estimated completion of phase two is December 2010.

Wayne State recently announced plans to embark on its largest expansion project in the schools history, with the construction of a $93 million, 200,000 square foot biomedical research center. The project will include massive renovations of the abandoned Dalgleish Cadillac dealership, as well as new construction across the street on the former used car lot. The facility is expected to house research teams from Wayne State, Henry Ford Health Center and the Detroit Medical Center.