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Maryland Raises Half Its Goal For Cole Field House, First Phase To Be Done In May

Maryland President Wallace Loh on Wednesday said that the university has "raised half of its private fundraising goal for construction" of a $155M indoor football facility and academic research center, with the "first phase of the project expected to be finished by next May," according to Roman Stubbs of the WASHINGTON POST. Construction of the "ambitious project to repurpose Maryland’s former basketball arena, Cole Field House, into a football facility, sports medicine center and entrepreneurial lab has been underway since last year as funding has continued to roll in," with the school currently holding $51M in private donations. Loh "expects to raise" another $49M from private donors, with the rest of the $55 million "expected to come from state and university funds." The project, which is "slated to be completely finished" by December '19, took another step with the school announcing new plans for its Center for Sports Medicine, Health & Human Performance, which will "conduct research on neuroscience and focus on the effects of traumatic brain injuries." The indoor football complex, which will "make Maryland the last school in the Big Ten to have such a facility, is expected to be completed" in May. While Cole Field House currently is a "skeleton in the shadows of Maryland Stadium, nearly 6,000 tons of concrete have been removed from the site and installation of the building’s new roof is under way." Loh said that more than 30% of the football facility, which is "considered phase one of the project, is already completed and is on budget." UM also "released a series of new renderings of the project" (WASHINGTON POST, 10/20). 

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