Ave Maria (Florida)

Collier County

Ave Maria University is a planned city in the U.S. state of Florida. She is currently in the design phase.

The site of the planned city is located about 30 km from Naples in Collier County. The city is designed according to initial estimates from a population of 8,000 persons ( 5,000 students and 3,000 other people) now at a capacity of about 20000-22500 residents.

The initiator, pizza multimillionaire Tom Monaghan, had a dream to found the " first major Catholic university in the U.S. for 40 years " ( Monaghan ). " This university, Ave Maria University, around created since 2002, the same name city ​​Ave Maria.