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#1 BSLZackKiesel

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Posted 05 April 2019 - 02:54 PM

IMS: Maryland Quietly Moving Forward on Basketball Practice Facility

 

A group of Maryland basketball supporters is moving forward with plans for a dedicated practice facility for the program, sources told IMS.

 
The group, which included former Maryland basketball coach Gary Williams, has begun a "soft" round of fundraising and commissioned blueprints for the facility, which is expected to cost in the neighborhood of $35 million and will be built onto the main entrance to Maryland's Xfinity Center arena, on the Southeast side. Although the school is unlikely to officially announce plans for the project until it receives roughly $20 million in commitments from private donors, it's quietly becoming a reality, with around $8 million already pledged and more large pledges expected.

 


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Posted 05 April 2019 - 11:15 PM

IMS: Maryland Quietly Moving Forward on Basketball Practice Facility

The boosters keep writing checks.

Their facilities are really becoming top quality.


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Posted 08 October 2019 - 11:04 AM

Maryland announced the construction of a $36M Basketball Performance Center today. It will be located adjacent to the XFINITY Center, and provide practice and programming spaces, as well as a large strength and conditioning center. There will be two separate practice courts, as well as brand new locker rooms for both the men's and women's basketball programs.
 
This will also allow XFINITY Center to host concerts in the future.
 

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Posted 23 March 2022 - 08:29 AM

Balt Sun: With Kevin Willard in tow, Maryland reaches $40 million fundraising goal for long-awaited basketball practice facility



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Posted 23 March 2022 - 09:12 AM

Balt Sun: With Kevin Willard in tow, Maryland reaches $40 million fundraising goal for long-awaited basketball practice facility

Interesting read.   I am not sure why the construction has to wait 9 months, but good that it is finally a goal.

 

Interesting differences, between Turgeon and Willard.  One recognizes the possibilities for Maryland Basketball, while the other complained and made excuses.


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Posted 23 March 2022 - 09:20 AM

Should’ve been done years ago. An announcement of something coming by like 2025, that was originally announced in 2019 pisses me off. And now we find out, they needed to raise just $4M more than the original cost of $36M due to inflation. Mike Lowe shared that Big Ten revenue chart the other day in another thread - where is all that going? And why isn’t Maryland basketball the priority? This kind of thing is just completely unacceptable.



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Posted 23 March 2022 - 10:04 AM

Should’ve been done years ago. An announcement of something coming by like 2025, that was originally announced in 2019 pisses me off. And now we find out, they needed to raise $4M more than the original cost of $36M due to inflation. Mike Lowe shared that Big Ten revenue chart the other day in another thread - where is all that going? And why isn’t Maryland basketball the priority? This kind of thing is just completely unacceptable.

The money in part goes to support the non-revenue and lesser revenue sports.


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Posted 23 March 2022 - 10:14 AM

The money in part goes to support the non-revenue and lesser revenue sports.

It was a rhetorical question. It doesn't take even a fraction of the money we're making to support those non-revenue sports. There really is no excuse for it taking this long. I think Maryland Basketball has been grossly mismanaged and mis-prioritized for some time now. 



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Posted 23 March 2022 - 10:34 AM

It was a rhetorical question. It doesn't take even a fraction of the money we're making to support those non-revenue sports. There really is no excuse for it taking this long. I think Maryland Basketball has been grossly mismanaged and mis-prioritized for some time now. 

On the last point I totally agree.


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Posted 23 March 2022 - 10:57 AM

I am not sure why the construction has to wait 9 months, but good that it is finally a goal.


Same reason you don’t immediately start building a house just because you have money. All those renderings we saw weren’t architectural darawings, you need those. You need to hire a general contractor, who then hires all the subcontractors, and as this is a state job there is an extensive bidding process to do. Then you have all the other red tape that goes with construction before you can put shovels in the ground. 9 months is actually a pretty aggressive timeline, though I think they’ve been very confident for a while now the last pieces of funding would come through.



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Posted 11 June 2023 - 02:43 PM

They expect to break ground next month. Due to significantly rising construction costs, they'll have to spend about $16M more than originally budgeted and will end up with 16,000 sq ft less than the original plans called for.

 

https://247sports.co...in-p-211308930/



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Posted 12 June 2023 - 08:31 PM

They expect to break ground next month. Due to significantly rising construction costs, they'll have to spend about $16M more than originally budgeted and will end up with 16,000 sq ft less than the original plans called for.

https://247sports.co...in-p-211308930/


Construction materials went nuts.

We applied for a permit at the start of the pandemic to renovate/add some sq footage to our house for a project expected to cost 200k. The city dragged its feet on a permit and we didn't get approved until 2022. Now it's going to cost us 300k and we have to scrimp on finish materials.

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Posted 12 June 2023 - 08:48 PM

Hopefully the design and build are done in a way that would allow for easy expansion in the future. Curious to see what kind of events they can bring in outside of UM sports, since that's obviously become a significant piece of the funding plan.






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