Economic Impact on Six Communities While the operations of the six regional campuses are approximately equivalent, the context for their operations varies substantially with respect to the types of cities hosting the campus, the facilities utilized in the region, and the types of partnering organizations. While each campus has a capacity of 40 students (20 per class of third- and fourthyear medical students) operating within a facility of approximately 5,000 square feet, some variation exists in populations and other circumstances associated with each region: The Tallahassee campus is unique in that the regional campus is located in the same city as the main FSU campus. Thus, local impact entails the substantial capital investments involved in construction of the Thrasher and Research buildings, as well as each site’s ongoing operations. o
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While the main campus’s presence results in local expenditure levels that are much larger than the levels observed for other regions, the local multipliers associated with these expenditures are less substantial factors than those observed for most other regions. This is due to a smaller encompassed population in market area counties (just over 371,000 individuals reside in the four counties included in this region).