Stanford University has declined its option to purchase a 174-year-old Catholic school in Belmont where it planned to develop a new satellite campus, citing the “changed landscape” of federal funding for research universities.
Stanford entered into a purchase agreement in 2021 to acquire Notre Dame de Namur University’s 46-acre property with plans to add 700K square feet of new development and create a Stanford Belmont campus.
The redevelopment would have demolished most of the structures on the Notre Dame de Namur, which is located about 13 miles north of Stanford’s main campus, with the exception of the Taube Center, the Madison Art Center and the Ralston Mansion, a national landmark built in 1867.
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