Over a decade's worth of work and research went into Manhattan being selected for the NBAF, then ku comes along and says "give us some money for one of them-there cancer centers".
ku already piggy-backed onto the Johnson County research triangle sales tax, an effort that was started by KSU's plans to build the Olathe campus. A portion of the sales tax is to be dedicated to facilities at the ku Med cancer center in Fairway.
The Johnson County Education Research Triangle will be a partnership between ku and Kansas State University. The sales tax is expected to generate an estimated $15 million per year to fund new facilities, which include the ku Cancer Clinical Research Center in Fairway, the K-State National Food and Animal Health Institute in Olathe and the Business, Engineering Science and Technology, or BEST, Center at the ku Edwards Campus in Overland Park.