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The Franklin Building, home to the UA journalism department for the last 27 years, is being torn down starting this week to make way for a new family and consumer sciences facility.

Franklin was built in 1960 to house the College of Law, one of the first buildings to cross the lava rock wall that had defined the southern edge of campus. When the law school moved across Speedway in 1979, the building was renamed for territorial Rep. Selim M. Franklin, one of the University of Arizona's founders.

Since then, it has housed the journalism and Near East studies departments, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Arthur T. Brown, who designed the Franklin Building, was also the architect for the Graham-Greenlee, Manzanita-Mohave and Kaibab-Huachuca dorms.

In 2000 and 2001, the journalism department experienced sewage-system malfunctions, and toxic mold was found in a hallway, forcing faculty members from their offices.

The site, at East Fourth Street and North Park Avenue, will be developed into the McClelland Park Building, which will house the John and Doris Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences.

The McClelland Park Building will be home to a school with surging enrollment, with triple the number of retailing students in the past decade.

The 70,000-square-foot building will have classrooms on the ground floor, and offices and conference rooms on the second through fourth floors. It will feature a covered outdoor atrium space, the Lakin Family Plaza.

McClelland Park will be funded entirely through private donations at a cost of $16.5 million. Smithgroup Inc. of Phoenix is the architect, and Hensel Phelps Construction Co. of Tucson is the contractor.

View the demolition and construction on a live Web cam at www.fdc.arizona.edu/webcam/ fcs.cfm

Breinholt Contracting Co. Inc. is handling the demolition.