Lewises Give $5 Million to USC School
Ralph and Goldy Lewis, the husband-and-wife team that founded home building giant Lewis Homes more than 30 years ago, have donated $5 million toward a new building for the USC School of Urban and Regional Planning.
The gift is nearly half the money needed to build the $10.5-million Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall of Planning and Development, a 38,000-square-foot, four-story structure with classrooms, a library, computer facilities and a lecture hall.
Construction is expected to begin in 1991, with completion expected in 1993.
Both of the Lewises attended USC in the 1940s. They founded Lewis Homes in 1955, and the Upland-based company has since built nearly 38,000 homes in California and Nevada.
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