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BLACKSBURG, VA. — New York-based Cannon Design—along with Ballou Justice Upton Architects, civil engineers Anderson & Associates and the Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.— has begun construction on a 50,000-square-foot basketball facility on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University in Blacksburg. The building will house college basketball programs for women and men, and it will include two practice courts, physical therapy facilities, conference rooms, coaching offices and locker and lounge areas. Construction costs for the building, which will be completed in August 2009, are estimated at $18 million.