Obama Presidential Center's price tag: almost $1 billion
The Obama Presidential Center's construction cost has risen to $909 million, an increase of $59 million due to additional campus amenities.
The Obama Presidential Center cost nearly $1 billion to build, the Obama Foundation said Saturday.The exact price tag clocks in at $909 million, which is $59 million more than the center's previously released figure of $850 million.Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett said the increase is due to "additional amenities" added to the campus."We ... made the campus extraordinary beyond what we had originally intended, and we [are] going to continue to do that," she said.The amount — all privately…
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