Timeline
September 19, 2019
Grand Opening Celebration
August 2019
Fall semester classes start
June 2019
Anticipated move in for Lindner faculty and staff
March 2019
Announcement of the Kautz-Uible Economics Institute, which will offer additional resources to students, faculty and the community including a research initiative, an international scholars program and enhancements to the Women in Economics program.
January 2019
The Kautz Family Foundation’s trustees, Daniel Kautz and his sister Leslie Kautz, donate $1.5 million to establish The Kautz Attic on the fourth floor of the new building, in honor of their late parents Caroline and James Kautz, BA ’53, HON ’95. James was an emeritus trustee and former chair of the University of Cincinnati Foundation.
September 28, 2018
Final exterior wall panel and window installed; soil added to green roof
March 1, 2018
November 2017
First steel beam added
September 2017
UC unveils plans to renovate the current Carl H. Lindner Hall into the new home of the UC College of Law. Read more
May 15, 2017
April 2017
Construction begins on the area previously occupied by the Myers Alumni Center and the Faculty Club, adjacent to the existing Lindner Hall
October 2016
Founder of Cincinnati-based Johnson Investment Counsel, Timothy (Tim) Johnson, PhD, donates $5 million to establish a named institute and interactive investment lab within the new building
September 2016
The family of the late Carl H. Lindner Jr. (the college’s namesake) and Fortune 500 company American Financial Group donates $11 million to support construction of the new building, the largest gift in the history of the business school
August 2016
Preliminary architectural renderings released
June 2016
UC Board of Trustees approves new building plans
May 2016
Internationally renowned Henning Larsen Architects (Copenhagen, Denmark) with Cincinnati-based KZF Design hired as architects of record
October 2015
Lindner alumnus, Elroy Bourgraf, BBA '54, donates $1 million to support construction of the new building. Bourgraf has chosen to name the staff offices located in the new Lindner Career Services Center because of the significant impact UC's cooperative education programs had on his life.
August 2015
Fundraising to offset the cost of the new building commences