MU’s Master Construction Plan

While private construction has slowed significantly in Columbia, the University of Missouri continues to construct and renovate buildings throughout the campus at a steady pace. MU’s current Campus Facilities Master Plan includes $110 million in recently completed projects and more than $400 million in projects that are in the design or construction phase. In its capital improvement request now before the state legislature, the UM System is asking the General Assembly for $47 million to expand and renovate Lafferre Hall, and Gov. Matt Blunt’s supplemental budget includes $31 million for the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center. Campus Facilities will hold a public forum on the master plan at 10:30 a.m. March 12 in Memorial Union. MU added 2.2 milliongross square feet of building space from 2000 to 2006.

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