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Florida Regents Expected to Pick Orlando Today as the Site for a $30-Mil Law College

ORLANDO-The selection of this 100,000-hotel room tourist mecca over neighboring Tampa, FL and Lakeland, FL is a foregone conclusion and could be unanimous, say academic insiders. An estimated $1 billion in new commercial development hinges on the outcome.

By Alex Finkelstein | Updated on November 16, 2000

ORLANDO-It’s in the bag, say academic insiders. This tourist destination will be picked today as the site for Florida A&M University’s new $30-million, 120,000-sf College of Law. The 13-member Florida Board of Regents is meeting in Miami where the winner will be announced. An estimated $1 billion in new commercial development and redevelopment, associated with the college project here, hinges on the outcome.

Insiders aren’t hedging their bets because two movers and shakers already have stepped to the podium, favoring Orlando over neighboring Tampa, FL and Lakeland, FL for the new campus site. The university’s president, Frederick Humphries and Adam Herbert, chancellor of Florida’s university system, are voting for Orlando. The other 11 regents are expected to do the same.

Orlando’s total economic and cash incentive package offer to FAMU is $17 million. Tampa is offering $11 million; Lakeland, $6 million. The university wants the new campus ready for students by 2003. All three cities say they can accommodate that concern but Orlando is offering an immediate, rent-free Downtown site where FAMU could start classes quickly with an enrollment of 200 by spring 2001.

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