The weather outside suggests that Friday Photos should feature an igloo this week, but we’ll instead head to the East Side to check in on a new building on UW-Milwaukee’s campus.
A dual-purpose building is under construction at the northwest corner of the intersection of N. Maryland Ave. and E. Kenwood Blvd. The two-story, 24,000-square-foot building will house a welcome center for the university and, more importantly, the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center.
Endowed by Sheldon and Marianne Lubar, the new center is intended to create a multidisciplinary environment for faculty and students to incubate ideas, build confidence and, ultimately, succeed as entrepreneurs. The Lubar’s gave UWM $10 million in 2015 to support the center’s development.
The Lubar name is a familiar one to the approximately 27,500 students enrolled at the university. Just across N. Maryland Ave. is the Lubar School of Business building, funded by an earlier gift from the couple. Read the full story here.
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