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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 275620, member: 27"]
The cost to make a dome retractable is not prohibitive these days.  When I last looked at it, the last 8 or 9 domes built in the US were all retractable.  Would be surprised to see any major dome built in the future without it being retractable.
 
As to the cost, here is a quick review of some of the money SU has spent on capital investments over the past 7 years:  
 
The Syracuse Center for Excellence was dedicated in 2010.  It cost $41 million.  The Green Data Center opened in 2009.  It cost $12.4 million. 
Ernie Davis Hall opened in 2009 at a cost of $50 million. 
SU built the Life Sciences Complex, which opened in 2008, for $113 million.  Newhouse III opened in 2007 at a cost of 31.6 million. 
The Whitman School of Management building opened in 2005 at a cost of $40 million. 
 
The money will come from private donations, government support (as with all these buildings), the university will pay a substantial part of the bill, plus the developers will kick in a substantial amount of money.  This is not going to be a stand alone stadium.  There is going to be a shopping center, a hotel, a convention center, there will be restaurants, there will be recreational options, etc.  The developers need to make major investments in order to participate in the profits of the different ventures associated with the complex.
 
And there will be many naming options, ones for a lot more money that Carrier paid for the dome back in 1979.
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