46 min ago Share The botanical garden celebrated the commencement of the first phase of a master plan it intends to implement over the next decade.
Donors, elected officials, community members and more assembled at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens today for a groundbreaking ceremony, held to celebrate the start of construction on the nonprofit’s long-awaited campus renovation project.
The event featured a model of what the Selby Gardens campus would look like if the master plan is fully implemented.
The first of three phases in the Selby Gardens master plan will include a new four-story, 450-space parking garage, a welcome center, a plant research building and an accessory restaurant. That phase of the project is expected to cost $42.5 million, of which the organization has raised $40.1 million, fundraising campaign co-chair and trustee Cornelia Matson said today.
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