UCD Holds Groundbreaking for New Pharmaceutical Sciences Building

Site design for the new Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Building includes a 1.8-acre quadrangle, which will provide a pedestrian link between the academic and medical sections of the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.

Rendering courtesy of studioINSITE

The University of Colorado at Denver held a groundbreaking last week for the latest planned addition to its Anschutz Medical Campus: a new state-of-the-art pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences building.

The roughly 105,000-sq-ft building will house high-tech research labs, a clinical trials suite and a nuclear magnetic resonance unit, in addition to faculty and administrative office space, research offices, conference and seminar rooms and student support space. The $42-million building is currently in the design development phase.

Denver-based landscape architecture firm studioINSITE is providing the site design for the new construction, which includes a 1.8-acre quadrangle bordered by the future Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences building to the east, the Red Cross to the north and the Health Sciences Library to the west.

Located at the convergence of the UCD Anschutz Medical Campus, Colorado Science + Technology Park at Fitzsimons and the Fitzsimons Commons town center, the symbolic central quadrangle will provide a critical pedestrian link between the academic and medical uses of the campus to the south and the services and facilities of the biomedical research park to the north.

According to the program plan, construction of the new building and connecting quadrangle is planned for completion in 2010.