$40 Million Headed to LCC and MSU For Science Facilities Upgrades

Thanks to an influx of state funds, Lansing Community College in Downtown Lansing will receive $10 million, and East Lansing's Michigan State University will receive $30 million to help the schools upgrade buildings for science and technology education.

According to excerpts from the article:

Tucked into a $383 million capital outlay bill was $10 million for renovations to the Arts & Sciences building on LCC's downtown campus.

The $20 million project — LCC is required to match the money from the state — will add 10 new labs and nine new classrooms to the building, many of them in the space now occupied by a cafeteria on the building's second floor.

The outlay bill, the first approved by the state since 2008, also included $30 million for additions and renovations to plant science facilities at Michigan State University. MSU already had begun one such project, a $43.2 million structure that will link the existing Plant Biology and Plant and Soil Sciences buildings,

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