The University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy will open a new 286,000 square-foot state-of-art facility targeted for completion in early 2010. The $132 million building will be the largest academic building in Kentucky and among the largest in the nation. The five-story building will include academic and research facilities for educating future pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists as well as providing laboratory space for faculty's pharmaceutical and clinical research programs. Messer Construction is the construction manager, architects are EOP Architects, and Ellenzweig is the design architect and lab planner.