The university’s new Manhattanville campus will encompass 6.8 billion square feet and recently earned LEED Platinum in the Neighborhood Development (ND) category. The project is being completed in several phases, with the entire campus completed in the next 30 years. The first phase of construction is slated for completion in 2016 and will include the .

In 2007 the project was estimated to cost $6 billion and has received extremely generous donations from Columbia alumni. The most recent donation comes from Ronald O. Perelman, chairman and CEO of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc. and a member of the university’s Board of Overseers. His $100 million donation is to the new Columbia Business School, which will be located on the Manhattanville campus. His large donation positions him in the category of largest donation in school history, along with the previous single donation of $100 million back in 1969 by Columbia-alum Henry R. Kravis.

The donation will be used to help fund construction of the new business school, and one of the two buildings at the new school will be named the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Business Innovation.

“Ronald O. Perelman has long valued and supported business education and innovation in New York City,” said Columbia Business School Dean Glenn Hubbard, in a statement. “We are extremely grateful for his vision and generosity, and this gift will allow us to reach a new phase in the school’s expansion into Manhattanville. We are building more than facilities: we are enabling the greatest business minds of our time to work together in a forward-looking, collaborative space that will spur the ideas that will shape business for decades to come.”

The business school, designed by New York architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, will span more than 450,000 square feet. The building will be equipped with the most up-to-date and state-of-the-art technology, according to Hubbard.

“Columbia Business School has its finger on the pulse of changing nature of business education,” said Perelman in a statement. “The school’s commitment to developing transformative business thinkers is unparalleled, and I am pleased to pledge this gift to help them prepare the next generation of business leaders.”

Along with Perelman’s donation to the business school, Columbia University Trustee Gerry Lenfest has pledged $30 million to support the construction of a multi-arts venue at the Manhattanville campus. Lenfest’s gift was announced in November 2012 and is the largest gift ever made for the arts at Columbia. In his honor, the new facility will be named the Lenfest Center for the Arts.

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“We are proud to have earned the LEED Platinum recognition for sustainable neighborhood development,” said Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger in a statement. “This is a milestone for Columbia, not only because we are building a future in our home community in New York, but because we are doing so with a commitment to the best urban planning principles and the highest quality architecture that reflect both the core values of city life and the fundamental need for a more sustainable society.”

The project initially began in 2006, when Peter Pitruzzello, vice president for Columbia University’s Manhattanville development group, worked with project members to actively plan for the design and construction of new buildings.

“From very early on in the project we looked at sustainability,” Pitruzzello said. “From the very first shovel full of dirt, through design and construction, and what will ultimately be the operation of the buildings, we are looking at the full-continuum of sustainability initiatives.”

The 17-acre campus will be constructed in several phases with a slated completion date for the entire project taking 30 years. In 2007 the total project was estimated to cost $6 billion. The future campus will encompass about 6.8 million square feet, according to Pitruzzello. That includes academic buildings and academic research space, as well as university housing. It will also include a 2-acre area of open space, which will include a large square and a smaller plaza with widened sidewalks, creating a pedestrian-friendly environment.

“We’ve started our first phase, but the project will be built in multiple phases over several decades. Construction of the first phase includes the Jerome L. Greene Science Center, the Lenfest Center for the Arts, the School of International and Public Affairs and the Columbia Business School, as well as an academic conference center, all of which will form the core of the first phase of the project” Pitruzzello said.

As time goes on other phases will be developed based upon academic need, explained Pitruzzello. The first building of Phase I, the Jerome Green Science Center, will be complete in 2016. The campus will offer public space as well as the potential for retail shops and pathways to the Hudson River waterfront.

“This is a very different kind of campus than our Morningside Heights campus. Our existing Morningside Heights campus was conceived and built over 100 years ago, and is really surrounded by gates and walls — built at a time where not much else was built around here,” Pitruzzello said. “The Manhattanville campus has many wonderful features that are open to the public, including the two public squares. There are no gates, walls or barriers, and that allows for both the university community and our neighbors to pass through freely between buildings.”

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