SAGINAW, MI — A plan for Saginaw to host a new building for Central Michigan University’s College of Medicine is continuing to take shape as college officials announced major developments in the initiative Friday, Nov. 21.

CMU officials announced the name of the planned expanded campus — Covenant HealthCare College of Medicine at Central Michigan University — along with two multimillion-dollar donations that led to the new title.

College officials also announced plans to build the site in a different location than previously announced, although the change will keep the academic college in Saginaw and within the “medical diamond” district along the city’s riverside, near downtown.

CMU officials originally identified the site for the planned building on what now is a vacant riverside lot

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