University of Florida board on verge of picking site for Jacksonville graduate campus

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University of Florida board on verge of picking site for Jacksonville graduate campus

The University of Florida board could make a long-awaited decision this week on selecting a site for a planned graduate campus in the downtown Jacksonville area.

UF and the city have been in talks over the past two years about the university building a graduate campus in Jacksonville financed by a mix of state, city and private funding.

When the UF board of trustees meets for a two-day meeting starting Thursday, the board’s Committee on Governance, Government Relations and Internal Affairs will vote on making a recommendation to the full board for a final vote the following day on the site.

City Council President Terrance Freeman listens while Mark Kaplan, vice president of government and community relations for the University of Florida, talks in March of last year about a potential UF campus in Jacksonville.

A description of the action item for the committee’s agenda says that “through productive discussions between the university and the city of Jacksonville, the parties have identified a site that they believe to be ideal as the site for the university’s Jacksonville campus.”

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“The university and the city are ready to immediately begin the work necessary to complete the conveyance of the site,” the description says.

The board agenda packet does not identify the site. In the past, places under consideration have been in the LaVilla area of downtown and at the sports complex on

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The prospect of a UF campus in Jacksonville has locked up $250 million in funding — $150 million from the state, $50 million from the city of Jacksonville and $50 million from private donors.

The University of Florida already has a long-time presence in Jacksonville through UF Health Jacksonville and its teaching hospital affiliated with UF colleges of medicine, nursing and pharmacy.

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