The Florida Gators’ new baseball stadium — a standalone facility located in the southwest portion of the University of Florida campus that will replace centrally located but aging McKethan Stadium — is now set to cost $65 million, with construction beginning in February 2019 and set to be completed in the summer of 2020 in advance of the 2021 season, the program announced Thursday.
That new figure represents $15 million in additional costs, and the new dates suggest a timeline being pushed back a year. Both changes are acknowledged, with some careful diction, by athletic director Scott Stricklin in Florida’s release.