Vanderbilt University's West Palm Beach campus brings a graduate-level extension of the Nashville university to Florida, rising along South Tamarind Avenue in the Government Hill area of downtown West Palm Beach, a 10-story building at 810 Datura Street set to finish in 2029. Financed with $300M in January 2026.
Designed by Boston-based Elkus Manfredi Architects, the roughly 300,000-square-foot campus centers on an Academic and Innovation Building and an Executive Education and Lifelong Learning Building, organized around sun-filled classrooms, green space and a rooftop terrace. Programs focus on business, engineering, data science and artificial intelligence, and the campus is planned to eventually serve roughly 1,000 graduate students and more than 100 faculty. The project anchors West Palm Beach's push to become a hub for higher education and finance-adjacent talent, assembled from land donated by Palm Beach County, the City of West Palm Beach and developer Jeff Greene.
Elkus Manfredi showed a nine-building, nine-acre Government Hill campus with four buildings rising as high as 10 stories, opening with a roughly 115,000-square-foot, four-story first building on Datura Street.
oftmw.comVanderbilt paid $6.25 million for two lots at Tamarind Avenue and Datura Street, completing a key block of the Government Hill campus.
stetnews.orgDeveloper and philanthropist Jeff Greene donated land adjoining the downtown West Palm Beach site, adding to the parcels conveyed by Palm Beach County and the city and accelerating the roughly $520 million graduate campus.
news.vanderbilt.eduUniversity confirms the West Palm Beach campus, triggering land closing on 7 acres east of Tamarind Avenue, design completion and groundbreaking.
wlrn.orgVanderbilt announced $300M secured for campus construction, Jan 12, 2026 (CBS12).
cbs12.comPalm Beach County Commission gives final approval and donates a 5-acre parcel for Vanderbilt's West Palm Beach graduate campus.
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