re: The IPF is estimated at $12 million and will be built behind Butts-Mehre

Wow. So according to Seth Emerson, the option being discussed is where the current Ag Co-op is off Lumpkin:

quote:

---

It is not clear whether the location for the facility will be formally approved, but one site has emerged as a possibility: The area just beyond the existing outdoor practice fields, off of Lumpkin Street, leading up to Stegeman Coliseum.

Other locations had not been ruled out as of last month: An off-campus area off Milledge Avenue, or tearing up one of the existing outdoor fields and building it there. But the location off Lumpkin seems a good compromise, keeping the existing facilities but not having it far from the Butts-Mehre building.

---

If this were the case, no way it's only $12 mill. UF is building a plain looking facility on undeveloped land for $15 mill right now. We'd have to pay to tear down the building on the lot, tear up a parking lot, and then build what would have to be a nice looking facility given the prominent location on Lumpkin.