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So what are you guys planning to do to get them moving ?Posted On: Oct 9th 2015, 7:37 PM #350128
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Teambeer is the most knowledgeable FAU sports fan I know, way smarter than me.
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Being half way there I would hope they could break ground (finance the balance Pres. Kelly) on he full scale project and continue to collect pledges to pay off the balance . It will be much easier to collect on something people can actually see and also be a HUGE help in recruiting AND be in place for next season as I am sure it will take a while (year?)to build anyhow.
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With the money already in hand, surely they have all the design and engineering work done.
Being half way there I would hope they could break ground (finance the balance Pres. Kelly) on he full scale project and continue to collect pledges to pay off the balance . It will be much easier to collect on something people can actually see and also be a HUGE help in recruiting AND be in place for next season as I am sure it will take a while (year?)to build anyhow.
Posted On: Oct 10th 2015, 8:49 AM #350146
You must be a member of Congress! Just kidding. But to borrow to build this thing would be pretty irresponsible. To start building before they have all of the funding will be the fast lane to building a facility that is substantially less than the special building they originally announced.
Regarding the "7 million from the Miami game" besides a couple twitter post, was their any other official notice? I haven't seen anything which means to me that after buzz of the wine from the cocktail party went away we are either still working out the details or that money went away.
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Board of Regents approve $166 million Athletes Village - Yahoo Sports
$166 Million! That is over three times our projected cost. The longer we wait the further we get left behind! Our project is much needed and appropriate for us and apparantly at quite a reasonable price. Another reason to begin before the costs rise!
Here are some other links to their project;
http://www.gophersports.com/genrel/100915aad.html
http://www.nothingshortofgreatness.com/ (LOVE this name by the way!)
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GeorgiaOwl said
With the money already in hand, surely they have all the design and engineering work done.
Being half way there I would hope they could break ground (finance the balance Pres. Kelly) on he full scale project and continue to collect pledges to pay off the balance . It will be much easier to collect on something people can actually see and also be a HUGE help in recruiting AND be in place for next season as I am sure it will take a while (year?)to build anyhow.
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You must be a member of Congress! Just kidding. But to borrow to build this thing would be pretty irresponsible. To start building before they have all of the funding will be the fast lane to building a facility that is substantially less than the special building they originally announced.
Regarding the "7 million from the Miami game" besides a couple twitter post, was their any other official notice? I haven't seen anything which means to me that after buzz of the wine from the cocktail party went away we are either still working out the details or that money went away.Posted On: Oct 10th 2015, 9:16 AM #350150
Just posted a story on Minny building a $166M complex and breaking ground with about 1/2 pledged so they are over $70M short still but still proceeding. The story says they usually have to have only 20% pleded to proceed but waithed to have 50% because of large cost. We are at 50% and are only $25M short or 1/3 the amount Minny is willing to cover by financing.
We HAVE TO get out of this little guy rut, bite the bullet and have the balls to grow! WE STILL would probably NOT have the stadium had the former President not come in and had the balls to say let's build this thing already!
Any construction project draws MUCH more interest (think condos) when something tangible is going up and not just a brochure with pics.
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