An updated Request for Qualifications has been administered by the University of Cincinnati for renovations on Fifth Third Arena. UC issued a RFQ way back in October that laid out their desired cost, timeline, and overview of upgrades for the two-decade old venue.
Now that Populus Architexture firm Populous has been tabbed to draw up the designs, it’s been updated to reflect a more realistic estimate of costs and the like. Here’s a rundown of the major nuggets I’m most interested in if you don’t want to read the whole thing.
- Anticipated cost is $80 million all in, up from $70 million in the initial RFQ.