Two days after Maryland president Wallace D. Loh welcomed hundreds to the official opening of the school’s indoor practice facility at Cole Field House — the first phase of a project that reportedly would cost $155 million — the university disclosed on its website that the cost had increased by more than 25 percent.
In an Aug. 4 news release about the opening of the first phase to what Loh had called “ the largest fundraising project in the history of the University of Maryland,” the fact that the project was now costing $196 million was mentioned in a photo caption showing Loh and others on stage during the ribbon-cutting ceremony.