MARQUETTE, MI— Northern Michigan University is getting $13.4 million in state funding to put toward construction of the Northern Enterprise Center.
Officials say the $19.1 million building will provide new and dynamic learning, teaching, business creation, innovation, and office space for the College of Business, and is designed to help propel the college’s continued growth.
The project was included in the supplemental appropriations bill signed Monday by Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
NMU President Brock Tessman said the project is part of an overall Campus Master Plan initiative to centrally locate popular academic programs, reduce net square feet through the future demolition of Gries Hall, and to reduce NMU’s carbon footprint and operating costs.
The facility will also complete a link between buildings in NMU’s Academic Mall, enabling students to traverse the entire area indoors in the winter.
