Compromise reached for site of School of Freshwater Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

From The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has a workable plan for its new School of Freshwater Sciences that should keep both the researchers and the school's corporate allies happy. The university will split operations between the existing harbor facility and a new privately funded building just south of the city's downtown.

DECEMBER 2009...from The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's preliminary $50 million plan to develop its new School of Freshwater Sciences now calls for a three-story addition to UWM's Great Lakes WATER Institute, on the city's south side lakefront. That's according to a funding request that the UW System Board of Regents is to review. The 125,000-square-foot addition would be built on university land just west of the 90,000-square-foot institute. The proposal also calls for renovations to the existing institute building, a former tile factory that overlooks the harbor. NOVEMBER 2009...from The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: The headquarters for University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's new School of Freshwater Sciences would cost an estimated $50 million to develop at the university's Great Lakes WATER Institute.