Belmont begins School of Pharmacy construction

By Candy McCampbell

Belmont University in Nashville has started construction on its new $30 million School of Pharmacy that will house research labs for both students and faculty.

The four-story, 90,000-sq-ft building, designed by Earl Swensson Associates of Nashville, is being built by R.C. Mathews Contractor, also of Nashville.

Completion is scheduled for June 2010.

The new building will also be home to Belmont’s School of Physical Therapy and include expansion space for the Schools of Nursing and Occupational Therapy and the social work and psychology programs. Some of those are housed next door in the Gordon E. Inman College of Health Sciences and Nursing building that opened in 2006.

The new pharmacy building also will have medical simulation spaces for training and a licensed, state-of-the-art pharmacy to serve faculty and students.

“The building will be a model, 21st century academic facility, providing a venue where our students and faculty resources can intersect in service to help meet the medical needs of our community and our world,” Dr. Bob Fisher, Belmont president, says in a statement.

The new building will sit on a four-level underground parking garage with spaces for 454 vehicles, meeting another need on the neighborhood-bound campus.

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