The University of Wisconsin-Madison will ask the Board of Regents Friday to approve roughly $4.7 million more to construct its Lakeshore Nature Preserve visitor and research facility, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
The need for more funding is due to inflation and higher tariffs on building materials, according to the UW.
The center is named the Frautschi Center after UW-Madison alumnus and Madison philanthropist W. Jerome Frautschi, who died Jan. 8.
If approved, the extra funding would bring the final project cost to about $21.5 million.
Frautschi gave the university $14.3 million in 2024, and eventually $17 million total, to build the 8,000-square-foot facility, which will be located outside the stone wall entrance to the 300-acre nature preserve on Lake Mendota.
