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In the south of the town several important public buildings were built. In 1898 the Neuro-psychiatry Clinic opened, and in 1944, the market hall and new schools. In 1996, the Faculty of Architecture of the Universit� della Svizzera italiana opened. Between the train station and the old town, next to residential buildings, numerous service sector businesses opened. In 2000, these offered more than three-quarters of the jobs. That same year, more than half of the residents of Mendrisio were commuters away from town, while the commuters coming in represented two-thirds of the workforce in Mendrisio. Almost two-fifths of workers were cross-border commuters
