Consigli Construction broke ground on a new campus for Boston-based Northeastern University’s Roux Institute in Portland, Maine. The cost of the project is $500 million, according to a Northeastern news release. Milford, Massachusetts-based Consigli will build the new campus at the site of the former B&M Baked Beans factory in Portland. The building, which was first built in 1913, closed its doors in 2021, the Portland Press Herald reported. The campus will be anchored by a 245,000-square-foot learning, research and collaboration building that will house wet labs, computational labs, research spaces, and classrooms, according to Northeastern.
Separate from Consigli’s work, the university is planning a major rehabilitation of the 58,000-square-foot Bean building to provide workspaces for startups and businesses.
The campus will also include a new parking garage, an adjacent childcare center, public green spaces, and pedestrian and bicycle paths on the shores of Casco Bay, which will be made accessible to the public for the first time in more than a century, according to Northeastern.
Over 800 graduate students are currently enrolled on the Portland campus, and with the work, officials expect enrollment to grow to 3,500 within five years.
Source: www.constructiondive.com