Miami
Miami Dade College opened its $37 million science complex in January of 2010. Housing classrooms, administrative and facility offices, a greenhouse, a rooftop observatory deck, and a botanical garden, the facility features two laboratory floors for research and teaching in astronomy, biology, chemistry, and earth sciences. Ground was broken on the project in November of 2005 with construction beginning in May of 2006. The three-story, 73,384-sf facility is located on the school's North Campus in Miami.