George Washington University has sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Web Services, a $427 million deal in the heart of Northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley.
The sale price of the roughly 122-acre Ashburn campus comes to $3.5 million per acre.
The sale is “part of a broader strategy to strengthen GW’s long-term financial health and to invest more deeply in our academic mission and community,” GW President Ellen Granberg said in a statement…