Architects chosen for CBA building

Plans for a new $84 million College of Business Administration building at the University of NebraskaLincoln have progressed, with one quarter of the privately raised funds committed and architects selected, university officials said.

Last week, the University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved Robert A.M. Stern Architects of New York and Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture of Nebraska as architects for the new building.

CBA Dean Donde Plowman said the University of Nebraska Foundation has received a combination of outright gifts, documented gift commitments and verbal gift commitments, which in total represents more than a quarter of the $84 million goal. The entire cost of the new college building, planned for the southeast corner of 14th and Vine streets, is being raised from private donations to the foundation.

Major gifts have been received or committed by:

*Howard and Rhonda Hawks of Omaha. Howard Hawks is a 1957 alumnus of the UNL College of Business Administration and a former NU regent.

*Peter and Nancy Salter of Phoenix, with a gift in honor of Nancy Salter's father, Arthur M. Henrickson, a businessman and 1940 alumnus of the university's College of Arts and Sciences. Nancy Salter graduated from the university in 1968.

*Glenn Korff of Boulder, Colo., and Kenneth Korff of Tucson, Ariz., with a gift in honor of their father, Paul W. Korff, a 1933 alumnus of the college.

*Union Bank & Trust Co. of Lincoln and Nelnet Inc. of Lincoln, led by members of the Dunlap family.

"With these generous gifts, we are off to a tremendous start in achieving our goal of building a state-of-the-art facility to house our nationally recognized college of business that has seen dramatic growth in the last three years," Plowman said in a press release.

Robert A.M. Stern Architects is a leading architecture firm that has developed a portfolio of buildings for business schools, including buildings for Harvard Business School, the University of Virginia, Penn State, Miami University and Rice University, with buildings under construction at Wake Forest University and the University of Notre Dame and in design for the University of Florida and the University of Kentucky.

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