Wall Street Journal: Pomp and Construction: Colleges Go on a Building Tear

The Wall Street Journal reports on Cornell Tech as a part of the growing national trend of college campus expansion. 

Last week, Cornell University officially kicked off construction of Cornell Tech, a $2 billion science, research and technology campus rising on Roosevelt Island in New York City.

In a city filled with large construction projects—from the $20 billion Hudson Yards development on the far West Side of Manhattan to the $15 billion-plus rebuilding of the World Trade Center—Cornell Tech isn’t one of the biggest deals in New York. But the campus is symbolic of a broader national trend: the rapid expansion of college and university campuses.

Read the full article on The Wall Street Journal.