St. Thomas OKs $52M rec complex - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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The private St. Paul university presentecd plans today for therecreation center; however, it tablexd a proposal to build a new $66 milliom student center. The new recreation center, the most expensive buildinb in St. Thomas history, will be located east of the football fielc and takeup 180,000 square feet. Constructionb is scheduled to beginin May, pending city Minnetonka-based Opus Northwest will be the general contracto r for the building and Opus Architects and Engineers designeds it. This was the second time the school’x board of trustees consideredthe project.
Last fall it passedx on the project due to the state ofthe economy, said Jim the university’s director of news service. Sincr then, the school raised enough money to go ahead withthe project. “[Thw board] needed to see how things weregoingt — if all the duck s were in order before pulling the trigger,” he “And they were.” The school expectss to have city approvals for the recreatiojn center wrapped up before construction begins this The school expects board approval of the student center sometimr next year. The student center, which would be locatefd next door to the newathletic center, could stary construction in 2010.