Peter G. Angelos has donated an additional $5 million for the University of Baltimore’s planned new law school, bringing his total contributions to the project to $10 million.
The prominent attorney and Baltimore Orioles owner’s first gift toward the project came in June 2008, as the university began a private fundraising campaign to help the state pay for the $107 million building. He has covered two-thirds of the campaign for the project, which was already set to bear his parents’ names as the John and Frances Angelos Law Center.
The donation sets the stage for a groundbreaking of the 190,000-square-foot, 12-story building at the corner of Charles Street and Mount Royal Avenue. A ceremony will take place Aug. 26.
The university had sought $15 million from private donors. Aside from Angelos’ donations, the remaining $5 million came from Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., alumna Sayra Meyerhoff and her husband Neil, and alumna Jana Howard Carey.
The university held an international competition for the design of the building. Behnisch Architekten of Stuttgart Germany, working in partnership with Baltimore architecture firm Ayers/Saint/Gross, won the contract.
The building is expected to be completed in late 2012.
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