- Leaders broke ground on the new Commonwealth Center for Biomedical Excellence Thursday.
- The center will see the relocation of Chase Law School and the NKU branch of the UK College of Medicine to Covington.
- Although the project has garnered some criticism, leaders at the event were generally optimistic.
Local and regional leaders broke ground on the new Commonwealth Center for Biomedical Excellence Thursday.
Located on East Rivercenter Boulevard in Covington near the Northern Kentucky Convention Center and the Kenton County Justice Center, the biomedical center will see the relocation of NKU’s Chase Law School to its original city of Covington, where it was located from 1972 to 1981. Moreover, the center will host the local branch of the UK College of Medicine.
“We are thrilled to put shovels in the ground and transform this parking lot into a world-class facility for the NKU Salmon P. Chase College of Law and University of Kentucky Medical School–Northern Kentucky campus,” said Christine Russell, executive director of the Northern Kentucky Port Authority, which owns the land. “Northern Kentucky’s future doctors and lawyers will be educated at the Commonwealth Center in the heart of the region’s life sciences and legal community.”…