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caneingville said:
For all y'all that are wondering where UF is getting the $1.45B from, get ready, because I just read an alumni email I got yesterday...

First of all, President Bell has been approved. Then we got a whole list of more stats about how wonderful UF is.

Now, for all the additional expenditures. Obviously, everything isn't from the same buckets as athletics, but there's a LOT of new real estate here. And taxpayers are on the hook for a good portion (probably a portion of all, but I obviously don't have breakdowns for everything. I included numbers and pictures where available.
  • Work is underway to add 10,000 new beds for undergraduate housing. The project, which ultimately will exceed $1 billion, began with the demolition of three 1950s-era housing units. Construction on Phase 1 (rendering below), which will include more than 2,200 beds, is slated to begin next month.
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  • Progress continued on UF's graduate campus in Jacksonville (rendering below), bringing the transformational project closer to reality. (Google says this is costing $300M. State of Florida is paying $150M, City of Jax $100M, and $50M by private donors and university funds.)
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  • The university broke ground for the comprehensive renovation and expansion of the UF College of Dentistry building, adding more than 100,000 square feet of modernized teaching, research and patient care space. (Google says this is costing $210M.)
  • UF celebrated the future home of the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education, breaking ground on a project that will preserve and revitalize the historic former Infirmary building. (This is a BIG DEAL. The former infirmary building is a 5-story, almost 40,000 sq. ft. wraparound building that's on the National Register of Historical Places. A cursory Google search said this is costing $57M for the construction phase.)
  • Construction began on the UF/IFAS Center for Applied AI in Agriculture at the Gulf Coast Research and Education Center in Balm, Florida. ($40M per Google.)

Edit: I should have added all of this up before. Grand total of all of this comes out to more than the new stadium - $1.61B. Thanks, taxpayers!
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Can one of our resident lawyers please find a plaintiff in Jacksonville and sue UiF for this, please?
 
TakeitinDiaz said:
yes, but that is how it should work. The cost should be passed on to the consumers using it. It should not passed onto all taxpayers
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The cost for the renovation at BHG stadium, is being funded by the UF Athletic Association.
Those costs are not being passed on to the taxpayers in Florida.
However, some costs for maintenance at Hard Rock are provided by Metro-Dade subsidies.
 
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