Toray Plastics Pledges $2M to University of Rhode Island

The 195,000-square-foot building would replace five existing engineering buildings on URI’s Kingston campus—Crawford Hall, Gilbreth Hall, Kelly Hall, Kelly Hall Annex and Wales Hall—all of which opened in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The building would be home for seven of the University’s eight engineering programs: biomedical, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, industrial and systems, and mechanical engineering. Six of the seven buildings that comprise the engineering complex have not undergone any major improvements in more than 50 years.