Local News in Brief : Woodbury Dedicates Campus in Burbank

Woodbury University, a 103-year-old school known primarily for business and trade instruction, on Friday formally dedicated a $16-million campus in Burbank.

For 50 years, the school had been housed in two buildings on Wilshire Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles. The Burbank campus is on 22.4 acres north of Glenoaks Boulevard between Hollywood Way and Buena Vista Street.

It includes recreational facilities and a 57-student dormitory, with plans for more housing and a student center. The site was formerly occupied by two other educational institutions, the Villa Cabrini Academy and, later, Lutheran High School.

Woodbury has an enrollment of about 800 students, University President Wayne L. Miller said.

About $13 million of the cost of the campus is expected to come from the sale of Woodbury’s old Wilshire Boulevard campus, Miller said. The rest of the money will come from a fund-raising campaign and revenue from the sale of university assets, he said.