<p>Very good news for the future of UA! The Bryce campus, which is adjacent to the UA campus, is one third the size of UA’s campus, so there will now be plenty of room for UA to grow, and/or offset current overcrowding.</p>
<p>Yes, very good news. It also amazed me when the article said that at one point Bama offered $50 mil in cash. That’s a lot of cash to have on hand. Wonder if that’s from extra money made from football.</p>
<p>I don’t think that Bryce is 1/3 the size of UA, though. I think that Bryce sits on 200 acres. I could be wrong, but I think UA’s campus is over 1000 acres. Do you have better numbers?</p>
<p>This is great news! Tuscaloosa won’t lose any jobs from the moving of Bryce and UA can expand. It has always seemed to me that Bryce needed to be moved anyway and this move makes everyone happy.</p>
<p>Unlikely, athletics mostly makes scholarship contributions or fronts money for facilities that will benefit both athletics and the greater university. More likely, it’s money that was said aside from the fundraising campaign.</p>
<p>ahhh…that could be true. It was just a shocking amount to just be willing to pay out at once, with all the other building, remodeling, etc, that is going on at UA. It makes you wonder how much cash UA has on hand.</p>
<p>UA purchased some acres (for a gameday parking lot) of the Bryce campus this year, so the acreage is now 1000 plus. I had read that Bryce was one third the size of UA a year or so ago, but the 200 acre figure you cited sounds familiar too. Regardless, its a lot of land. Wonder how they will use the beautiful white domed building?</p>
<p>I would like to see them make it into a grand museum, consolidating the university’s many scientific, historical and cultural collections that currently are dispersed in the many libraries, museums and archives on campus and off.</p>
<p>I remember the last offer saying that the domed building would be used as an administration building. Hopefully before demolition they will give tours (they may already do this). The Bryce campus would make a good setting for a horror movie made by the College of Communication. </p>
<p>I realize that everything but the domed building and some of the trees is now slated for demolition, but why not keep the stone picnic tables too? That whole area has a real creepy feel to it.</p>
<p>Quite true! How far back does the land go? </p>
<p>I didn’t know that UA had already bought some of the land for game day parking. </p>
<p>*The Bryce campus would make a good setting for a horror movie made by the College of Communication. *</p>
<p>Or for any movie maker. UA should float the idea of using it to Hollywood. Perhaps they could earn some money before the demo begins. Hollywood likes making movies in cheaper states.</p>
<p>This article contradicts itself by saying the purchase will grow UA by a third, then goes on to say that UA will acquire 175 acres from Bryce. So, it is actually UA growing by about a fifth. </p>
<p>But still, its a lot of new land. The link above also details how the land will be used. The white domed building will be restored via $ 6.5 million. I think it would make a much nicer administration building than Rose Administration, which rests on the land that the old Tutwiler Dorm rested. They shouldnt have razed the old Tutwiler. One of the few times the UA has razed an old building.</p>
<p>Bryce building isn’t very centrally located. Rose is a good location for the administration. It’s not that historic of a building, so I see no reason not to tear it down and building a larger facility on the same site.</p>
How far back does the land go? </p>