CSU sets groundbreaking ceremony for biology, chemistry buildings for Thursday

FORT COLLINS — Colorado State University will hold an official groundbreaking ceremony for its new chemistry research and biology buildings at 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

The ceremony, open to the public, will take place at the building site east of the Anatomy/Zoology building between Pitkin and Lake Streets on campus.

The 152,000-square-foot biology building will include classroom, research and office space, and will house the entire biology program, which is now in the Anatomy/Zoology building.

The 61,000-square-foot chemistry research building will be mostly dedicated to synthetic chemistry research.

Both buildings are slated for completion by the fall of 2017.