{"id":1059,"date":"2016-03-08T11:34:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/downtown\/?post_type=post&#038;p=1059"},"modified":"2025-03-17T14:09:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T14:09:59","slug":"legislature-includes-ucf-downtown-in-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/downtown\/legislature-includes-ucf-downtown-in-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislature Includes UCF Downtown in Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida lawmakers included $20 million for UCF Downtown in the budget the Legislature released Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The insertion into the budget comes less than a week after the Florida Board of Governors, which oversees the State University System, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/downtown\/bog-approves-ucf-downtown\/\" target=\"_blank\">approved the downtown campus<\/a> that UCF will share with Valencia College.<\/p>\n<p>The $60 million academic building, which will be the centerpiece of the downtown campus, will be funded through a split among community support, university resources and state funding.<\/p>\n<p>Already, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/downtown\/dr-phillips-charities-contribute-3-million-to-ucf-downtown\/\" target=\"_blank\">UCF has raised $16 million<\/a> of the $20 million in community support it vowed to raise toward the project.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about UCF Downtown in the state budget in the <em>Orlando Sentinel<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida lawmakers included $20 million for UCF Downtown in the budget the Legislature released Sunday night. 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