Prominent developer and Palm Beach resident Jeff Greene and his wife, Mei Sze Greene, are giving more than an acre of prime land to Vanderbilt University for a planned graduate business school in downtown West Palm Beach.
The donation accelerates the project by unifying contiguous parcels of land and advancing Vanderbilt’s presence in South Florida, the university said in a statement this week.
The land being donated by the Greenes is next to seven acres already given to the university by the city of West Palm Beach and Palm Beach County. The Greenes’ contribution, about 1.3 acres in eight parcels along Sapodilla Avenue, will boost Vanderbilt’s campus to more than 8 acres…