On September 12, the UVA Board of Visitors agreed to enter into a lease with Charlottesville CIty Schools to take over a 5.2 acre property in Fifeville that UVA had purchased in October 2023 for $3.5 million.
Both UVA and Charlottesville City Schools submitted applications to take over the former Federal Executive Institute after the Trump administration closed it as part of its purge of the federal bureaucracy.
“As you know, they were highly disappointed in not being able to acquire the FEI property,” said J.J. Davis, executive vice president and chief operating office. “So you tasked us all with the challenge of is there an approach here for a win win?”…