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Message: [QUOTE="Chin Diesel, post: 5333394, member: 34"] I would suspect a labor cost and raw material cost differential plays a large part of it. I will go on a limb and suggest Northwestern will be paying Chicago union labor rates for the project whereas USF will be paying non-union Florida labor rates. In general any building being built in Chicago I would think would cost much more than a comparable building built in Tampa. UConn ran in to this cost difference when they built the new hockey rink and people were wondering why it cost so much Sacred Heart had a larger capacity for similar costs. Benedict brought up labor rates as one of the reasons why there were differences since UConn had union labor and it was negotiated as a state contract whereas Sacred Heart is a private school and had more wiggle room for labor costs. [/QUOTE]