Cornell breaks ground on $650M UES research center

A rendering of Cornell’s new research facility

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Weill Cornell Medical College has broken ground on a new $650 million Upper East Side research facility that will double Cornell University’s existing space for medical research, the Wall Street Journal reported. The university raised over $1 billion to fund the 480,000-square-foot, Polshek Partnership Architects-designed project, which will house the new Weill Cornell Cancer Center and the school’s global health and infectious disease research programs on the site of three demolished Cornell-owned Buildings On East 69th Street between First and York avenues. Completion is slated for 2013. [WSJ]