UI Foundation takes next step in selling land that hosts orchards

URBANA – The University of Illinois Foundation is one step closer to the eventual sale of the Pell Farm, a 160-acre property in southeast Urbana currently home to university orchards.

The foundation has hired Champaign-based Devonshire Group to conduct a market study to determine, among other things, how the foundation should best proceed with the land sale, such as hire a broker or put the farm on the auction block.

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