The Harvard Crimson reports that the facility is slated to be built in an open area on the Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus behind the Littauer Center. Construction is expected to conclude in December 2027.
Plans for the building are a result of a $100 million donation in September 2021 by alumna Penny S. Pritzker, who subsequently was appointed to lead the Harvard Corporation, Harvard’s highest governing body.
The new facility will provide a new home for the economics department, which now is situated in Harvard’s Littauer Center for Public Administration.
The new building will unite the department’s faculty into one building and provide more space for faculty to interact with the nearly 1,000 undergraduate economics concentrators on campus.
Mike Kennedy has been writing about education forAmerican School & Universitysince 1999. He also has reported on schools and other topics for The Chicago Tribune, The Kansas City Star, The Kansas City Times and City News Bureau of Chicago. He is a graduate of Michigan State University.
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