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Not sure if this had been posted before. Here is the new campus master plan map. Appears it includes the football support facility as well as other athletic facilities.

I liked the 2011 one better.

Can we Fire Ray Watts already?

What happened to the research crescent project/space?

Where is the "Ray Watts picking fruit from his orchard" statue going to be located?

The best thing about that map is that there are no plans to construct a building in the OCS area.

(03-25-2016 07:14 PM)BirminghamBound Wrote:  What happened to the research crescent project/space?

The same thing that happened to the second quad and the major northward expansion of the campus. Wishful speculation that never came to fruition. Master plans are always full of fantastical ideas.

(03-25-2016 07:17 PM)jaymay2525 Wrote:  Where is the "Ray Watts picking fruit from his orchard" statue going to be located?

In the orchard I would guess.

Forget the football stadium. This master plan is so incredibly disappointing after the Garrison master plan. They've given up on so many large and transformative projects. No more plan to try to re-do the entrance/exit roads and ramps from I-65. No more major research expansion. No more major green space. Basically just a few new buildings and that's it.

UAB and Birmingham is again getting screwed and is worse off with Ray Watts at the helm.

Guessing the Campaign For UAB & the lack of funds right now being gathered in it has nothing to do with those ideas being dropped?

(03-28-2016 05:29 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  UAB and Birmingham is again getting screwed and is worse off with Ray Watts at the helm.

We noticed that a while back.

Yep.

Ray is still continuing his wreck it ways.

(03-28-2016 05:29 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  Forget the football stadium. This master plan is so incredibly disappointing after the Garrison master plan. They've given up on so many large and transformative projects. No more plan to try to re-do the entrance/exit roads and ramps from I-65. No more major research expansion. No more major green space. Basically just a few new buildings and that's it.

UAB and Birmingham is again getting screwed and is worse off with Ray Watts at the helm.

The UAB medical side continues to get generous federal funding so it feels less pain from state legislative cuts in the SETF. Meanwhile the undergrad side - the side with the sports teams and nonmedical schools - remains largely dependent upon the SETF annually supplied by the state legislature plus student paid fees. The latter have been raised annually by the system BOT so they are now about 50% more than in 2008 with greater increases on the near horizon.

The SETF has been cut since 2008 and even the present proposed education budget is millions smaller than it was in 2008. The SETF is still in danger of being cut for 2016-2017 by as much as $180 million to fund the (vetoed?) General Fund. We may not know the whole story until both budgets are finalized in May or June.

Any changes in I-65 will have to come through the state's DOT which is still at work on the "future I-22" interchange in Jeffco / North B'ham and rebuilding I59 /20 downtown.

(03-30-2016 12:03 PM)the_blazerman Wrote:  

Laugh all you want, but the facts of the financial challenges facing undergrad UAB cannot be laughed away. That part of UAB is not the "favorite child" of the system BOT and they are the ones making the decisions about where money from the SETF goes within the UA System.

I'm waiting for Smitty's translation.