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Blog: Arriving at the final budget

February 7, 2019

As the project nears the end of the Schematic Design phase, the Building Committee has spent the past few weeks reviewing refined cost estimates and discussing adjustments to the project budget.

At the February 5 meeting, the Building Committee voted unanimously on a proposed project budget of $291M, a $17M reduction from the preliminary estimate of $308M last summer.

Read the budget announcement and learn more about the budget discussions in our latest Ponderings Blog Post: Arriving at the final budget.

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