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Certainly with football coming and it being placed right there
in the middle of all that other activity
and with the thought that light rail is coming by 2016, 2017,
I don't think there's any question that
for many members of the public who don't
come to UNC Charlotte day in and day out,
that's the side of the campus they will see.
Now I hope after the football game,
they'll wander over to the bookstore and spend
a few dollars and those kinds of things.
But yeah, that's gonna be the case.
Now football has been a real partnership funding;
the students paid about half the cost of the construction
through the student debt fee that they agreed to pay,
and then the rest comes from ticket sales
and 49ers seat licenses, private gifts and the like.
So it's gonna be a real partnership to build
that stadium and then run the football program
with the support from every hand we can get to contribute.