Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University has announced it’s moving forward with the first major building project in the university’s history—a three-story, 75,000-square-foot building at Brittany and Picardy avenues in the heart of the Baton Rouge Health District that will serve as the “front door” to a cohesive, identifiable campus, FranU officials say.
The project will cost some $28 million and will enable the growing university—which began nearly a century ago as a nursing school to support Our Lady of the Lake and today offers nearly two dozen associate, undergraduate and graduate degree programs—to consolidate from the dozen or so scattered medical office buildings its 1,400 students now occupy into a single, multipurpose space.
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