Vertical Campus Groundbreaking
(Baruch College Archives)
Finally on June 24, 1997, more than a decade after its planning and after ten buildings that stood on the site were destroyed, ground was broken for the Vertical Campus.
Vertical Campus Construction Phase
Approximately 65,000 cubic feet (about 140,000 tons) of bedrock had to be chopped out before construction could begin. With up to 30 feet of bedrock to be excavated at and a price of $25,000 for every linear inch it was a laborious and costly task. (Dunlap, David W. “A 17 Level Vertical Campus, It is to Cost 270 Million,”The New York Times, November 29, 1998, pg, re1).
