[cornell532]

Cornell is also planning to build 2,000,000 sf. That's more than 2x as much as the next closest (Columbia) which, in turn, is far more than any other proposal.

Cornell's proposal was just very big and ambitious.

[mathattack]

Interesting. In Columbia's case I would ask, "you are already there, what are you waiting for? Free land?"

[cornell532]

Basically, yes.