The explanation I heard was that the interior of the American Beauty building is not salvagable or appropriate for re-use as a biomed research building. Unofrtunately WSU does not have a lot of extra money laying around for extremely expensive interior redesign on buildings that may be more aesthetically appealing. It's a hell of a lot cheaper to build from scratch and I'm happy that at least the Dalgliesh building is being used.

We're all kind of amazed this is even going forward given the financial woes of WSU in the past couple of years.