The Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) Renovation and Expansion is the first project in the Biomedical Research Facilities Program approved by the 2008 legislature.
The original CMRR was established in 1991 by the Medical School Department of Radiology as a result of the rapidly growing and successful in vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) research effort at the University of Minnesota. The project will provide critical additional research space for the highly successful program.
The existing building is located in the emerging East Gateway District on the University’s Twin Cities / Minneapolis campus, also home to the new TCF Bank Stadium and the largest University expansion since the West Bank Campus was developed. The area is identified in the University’s campus master plan as a research park.
The expansion will provide approximately 65,000 gross square feet of additional space comprised of research labs, offices, support spaces and teaming areas for collaboration. The existing building is 41,000 gross square feet.
The project will also provide skyways to the adjacent McGuire Translational Research Facility / Lions Research Building to the west and the Medical Biosciences Building to the east. These skyways will provide a critical collaborative link to the existing Medical School programs housed in these buildings such as Nueroscience, Immunology and the Stem Cell Institute.
Project Timeline
| Winter 2009 |
Schematic Design Complete |
| Summer 2009 |
Construction Documents Complete |
| Summer 2009 |
Construction Begins |
| Fall 2010 |
Construction Complete |
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