Donnelly College, 608 N. 18th St., Kansas City, Kansas, plans a groundbreaking for its new academic and administrative building at 11 a.m. Thursday, May 2.
The college will build the 72,000-square-foot building to replace existing facilities, including the former Providence Hospital building, on its campus. The former Providence building will remain until the completion of the new academic building.
In the first phase, a Community Event Center was completed in 2013. The second phase was the renovation of Marian Hall in 2017, where the college’s nursing program is housed.
The third phase includes a two-level Donnelly parking garage to the west of Bishop Ward High School and to the north of Donnelly College, to be completed in June 2019.
The three-story academic and administrative building will be built on the current Donnelly parking lot on the east part of the property, near 18th Street, and will be completed in August 2020.
Donnelly College is an independent, coeducational, Catholic institution founded by the Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica and sponsored by the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas. Donnelly College was established in 1949 to meet the needs of urban immigrants and the working class. Today it is known as the most diverse college in the Midwest, according to U.S. News and World Report.
More information about the Donnelly building campaign is at www.campaignfordonnelly.com.