A-B gives $3M for SLU law school expansion – Kansas City Business Journal:

This is A-B’s largest individual gift to the university to David Peacock, president of ., presented the gift to SLU’ president, Rev. Lawrence Biondi, durinh the law school's hooding ceremony Thursday eveninvg atChaifetz Arena. The expansionm project will completely reconfigurw the existing law school facilities and will featured a newclassroom building, courtroom and a legall information center. An exterior façade will be in the classixc Gothic style. A-B’s gift will fund a new “fronf door” to the law school — the Anheuser-Busc Student Commons, with a new main entrance off Lindelk Boulevard.
“The Student Commons will be like the villagd green of thelaw school,” its dean, Jeffrey Lewis, told the Businesxs Journal. “It gives the law school a a heart.” The expansion will add about 50,000 square feet to the law school’zs current 150,000-square-foot facilities, Lewiw said. is the architect on the expansion. “We’ve worked closelyh with them, so we have a well-developefd concept,” Lewis said. Construction will begin when fundraisinhis completed. Lewis said he expects to break ground in the next 18 to24 “We’ve made significant progress,” he said.
“o think we have a good chance of beinb at 75 percent within thenext year.” Biondi pointedf out in his statement that Anheuser-Busc h has been a partner on a number of projectss around SLU’s campus: The Busch Student Center is namedf for August Busch Jr., the Anheuser-Busch Auditoriukm is located in the John Cook School of and Anheuser-Busch provided technical support for the construction of Chaifets Arena. Lewis said that SLU’ s law school also has a long relationshipwith A-B General Counsel Gary Rutledge is an alumnus, as are his predecessore Mark Bobak and Stephen Lambright.
Saint Louis Universitty is a Jesuit, Catholic universitt and the oldest university west of the Mississippi River. St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. is a wholl y owned subsidiary of Belgium-based .
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