In August 2007, enrollment increased from 106 first-year students to 156 students. In October 2007, MSU Board of Trustees voted to approve a $90 million project to build a new educational facility in downtown Grand Rapids.
By late summer 2007, the number of first-year students at Michigan State University (MSU) had increased from 106 to 156. Later that year, in October, the MSU Board of Trustees voted to approve a $90 million project to build a new academic center in downtown Grand Rapids.