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===Post-merger=== The legal existence of Concordia dates from August 24, 1974. The integration of the various faculties of the two institutions into a coherent whole took several years. The five faculties of the new university were a combination of existing faculties and departments prior to the merger. There was a Faculty of Commerce, Faculty of Science and Faculty of Arts at Sir George Williams University. Additionally, there was a Faculty of Arts and Science at Loyola College. The Faculty of Engineering of both institutions had previously been combined.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/concordia-university|title=Concordia University|encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]|access-date=September 7, 2019}}</ref> The Faculty of Fine Arts was created in 1976. The first phase of the combination of the Faculties of Arts and Science began in 1977 and ended in 1985. In the late 1980s, the Georges P. Vanier Library on the Loyola Campus was enlarged, while in 1992, the library on the Sir George Williams Campus moved to the new [[J.W. McConnell Building]]. The Norris Building was closed the same year. On August 24, 1992, [[Valery Fabrikant]], a mechanical engineering professor, [[Concordia University massacre|shot five colleagues]], killing four, on the ninth floor of the Hall Building. Fabrikant was convicted of the murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. The university erected a memorial to the slain professors (four granite tables) in the Hall Building lobby.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.concordia.ca/content/concordia/en/offices/archives/stories/memorial.html|title=Memorial in Hall Building Lobby|website=concordia.ca|access-date=August 5, 2019}}</ref> Starting in 1998, the university entered a major phase of expansion to meet its growing student enrolment. In August 2003, Concordia inaugurated the Richard J. Renaud Science Complex on the Loyola Campus. In 2005, the university launched a major urban redevelopment project in the neighbourhood surrounding the Sir George Williams Campus, known as the [[Quartier Concordia]]. That same year, the Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex opened its doors on [[Saint Catherine Street|Saint Catherine Street West]] between [[Guy Street]] and [[Mackay Street]]. In September 2009, the university marked the opening of the new building for the [[John Molson School of Business]]. In September 2015, the university held a ribbon cutting for the [[District 3 Innovation Centre|District 3 Innovation Center]]'s new space on the sixth floor of Concordia's Faubourg Building.<ref name="District 3 receives $1M">{{cite web |url = https://www.concordia.ca/cunews/offices/vpaer/aar/2015/09/28/district-3-receives-1million-startup-gift.html|title = District 3 receives $1M startup gift, christens new collaborative space|publisher = Concordia University|access-date = September 28, 2015}}</ref> The university opened its interdisciplinary Applied Science Hub in 2020.
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