LEXINGTON, Ky. — The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees has accepted a $150 million gift from The Bill Gatton Foundation to construct a new arts district, including a new College of Fine Arts building and a several-hundred seat theater.

The gift is the single largest in UK’s history, according to a release by the university on Tuesday.

“This gift will realize a vision to create an arts district on the western edge of our campus,” UK President Eli Capilouto said. “There, we can integrate art into an area of Lexington that is an increasingly vibrant and vital intersection of campus and city, town and gown.”

The gift will make possible:

Relocation and construction of a new College of Fine Arts Building along South Broadway next to the newly constructed Gray Design Building.

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