7,030 Acres Purchased for Proposed UC Campus
The proposed University of California campus near Merced moved another step closer to reality Friday with the final acquisition of 7,030 acres, including a golf course, for the campus site, university officials announced.
The land was acquired from the Virginia Smith Trust in the successful completion of a deal that was announced a year ago.
Also Friday, the officials said, a partnership created by the university and the trust acquired 1,240 acres from a rancher for a planned community south of the campus. The two transactions totaled $15 million, they said.
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