Release Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2013

UGA to break ground on Business Learning Community

The University of Georgia will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Business Learning Community, the future home of the Terry College of Business, at 1:30 p.m. April 26 on the lawn of the Richard Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.

The event is free and open to the public. It coincides with the launch of the Building Terry Campaign, which seeks to raise $90 million in private funding to benefit Terry facilities, faculty and academic programs.

The groundbreaking celebrates the first phase of construction of the Business Learning Community, Correll Hall, a building named for Terry College alumnus Pete Correll, chairman emeritus of Georgia-Pacific Corp. The building will house graduate programs, college administration, classrooms and an innovation lab.

Speakers will include Pete Correll; Dan Amos, CEO of Aflac and chairman of the Building Terry Campaign Cabinet; UGA President Michael F. Adams; Robert T. Sumichrast, dean of the Terry College; and Terry MBA candidate Michael Betts.

The 305,000-square-foot Business Learning Community, designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, will be located at the corner of Baxter and Lumpkin streets. Construction will happen over three phases, with the first beginning later this year.

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