Florida Gulf Coast University will unveil its Water School’s new home at Academic Building 9 at 11 a.m. Friday. At 114,414 square feet in four stories, the facility is the largest academic building on campus, with 58,600 square feet of research lab space and classrooms and teaching labs. The $58 million building opened for classes and research during the spring. Some features include an aquarium room housing an aquatic tank for research on topics such as how marine organisms respond to environmental change, a flume room containing incubators for growing bacterial and organismal cultures and a geology room housing sediment and soil cores that reveal environmental information about Florida’s past.
Owners of Herald Court businesses in downtown Punta Gorda asked City Council why the city, acting as their landlord, has...
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