By Phaedra Trethan/Courier-Post/October 14 2016

CAMDEN — Dana Redd pronounced herself “in awe.”

The Camden mayor joined U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross, Rutgers-Camden Chancellor Phoebe Haddon and others Thursday morning on a hard hat tour of the university’s new Nursing and Science Building, a striking 100,000-square-foot structure under construction at Fifth and Federal streets, the site of a former Camden Parking Authority lot.

The $62.5 million building cuts an impressive swath in the middle of a downtown in the process of revitalization, its three sides framed by City Hall, the NJ Transit RiverLine and Broadway. It’s part of the “meds and eds” corridor taking shape in the city, as institutions including Rutgers, Rowan University and Cooper University Hospital expand their respective footprints.

The building’s main entrance, at the sharp angle of the RiverLine at Fifth and Federal streets, will offer about 1,000 graduate and undergraduate students a place to study a variety of disciplines, including nursing, biology, chemistry and physics. A computational and integrative Ph.D. program and doctor of nursing program will also be housed there.

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