The UCF Healthcare Campus would be built at Lake Nona Golf &Country Club, an affluent south Orange County community Lewispurchased near Orlando International Airport in 1996. The land giftequates to $160,000 per acre or about $3.67 per sf.

The university's board of governors is scheduled to meet Nov. 17in Jacksonville to vote on the proposed undertaking. UCF officialsconfirmed for GlobeSt.com the Lewis gift is the largest of its kindin the school's 35-year history. Three $1-million gifts were alsopledged by Avalon Park developer Beat Kahli, the Winter Park HealthFoundation and the Martin Anderson and Gracia AndersonFoundation.

If approved by UCF governors, the first three buildings of themedical campus could break ground by first quarter 2006, UCFpresident John Hitt says in a prepared statement. The first phasewould comprise the 113,000-sf Burnett College of BiomedicalSciences building; a 130,000-sf medical college instructionalbuilding; and a 60,000-sf library.