A new $52.2 million UW-Madison School of Nursing building is still alive after university officials promised to use less taxpayer-supported borrowing to fund the project.

The state's Building Commission approved it Wednesday as part of a slate of $1.2 billion in state building projects, which will now go to the state Legislature for approval with the next two-year budget. The proposed building projects represent about a 22 percent decrease in spending from the last two-year budget.