Lowell, MA – More than 100 people – including UMass Lowell leaders, students, faculty and staff, along with state legislators and officials – broke ground on a new $40 million home for the university’s Manning School of Business that will become a key component in the transformation of its north campus.
The building will be named for UMass Lowell graduate John Pulichino ’67 and his wife, Joy Tong, successful entrepreneurs in the travel-goods industry who have donated $4 million to student scholarships. UMass Lowell leaders envision that the new building will complete an innovation district dedicated to business education and scientific research and development in support of the region’s economy.
The Pulichino Tong Business Building is scheduled to open in 2017 and will serve UMass Lowell’s growing population of undergraduate and graduate students studying accounting, entrepreneurship, finance, international business, management and operations and information systems.
The building, designed by Cambridge Seven Associates of Cambridge, will incorporate high-performance, sustainable and energy-efficient features that will meet or exceed the LEED Silver-Plus standards.
