Marquette Law School dedicates new building today

Marquette University Law School will formally dedicate its new building, Ray and Kay Eckstein Hall, during a ceremony today at 2 p.m.
The 200,000-square-foot, four-story building was constructed on a vacant site northwest of North 11th Street and Clybourn Avenue in Milwaukee. The building has two courtrooms, classrooms, faculty office suites, library space with a two-story reading room, a conference center and a café. Two levels of underground parking, with 170 spaces, are located beneath the building.
The building was designed by Boston-based Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott Architects and Opus Architects & Engineers. Rosemont, Ill.-based Opus North Corp. was the general contractor for the construction project.
Eckstein Hall is an $85 million building, made possible by a $51 million gift from Ray and Kay Eckstein, an alumni couple from Cassville. Zilber Ltd. founder Joseph Zilber, also a Marquette Law School alumnus, donated $30 million to the Marquette Law School in August 2007, of which $5 million went to the building.
Eckstein Hall is part of nearly $350 million in new construction and renovations that Marquette has invested in its campus during the last decade. The Discovery Learning Complex, future home of the Marquette College of Engineering, is currently under construction at 16th Street and Wisconsin Avenue.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will give the keynote address, former Milwaukee and current New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan will bless the building, and Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson will make remarks. Following the ceremony, guests are invited for tours of the building.