LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — The University of Kentucky accepted a historic $150 million donation from The Bill Gatton Foundation to build a comprehensive arts district on campus, marking the largest single gift in the university's history.

The major donation will fund construction of a new College of Fine Arts building, a several-hundred-seat theater, and create an integrated arts community along South Broadway that connects campus with downtown Lexington, according to a news release.

"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 ambitious project includes rel

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