New Jersey Private School With $67,850-a-Year Tuition to Tap Tax-Free Bond Market
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(Bloomberg) -- An elite New Jersey boarding school is hitting the $4 trillion municipal-bond market with a bond deal that comes with a bit of prestige.
The Lawrenceville School is selling $56 million of tax-free and taxable debt next week to help finance a complex that will include a pool, hockey rink, dining facility and fitness center. Located just down the road from Princeton University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, the school founded in 1810 boasts a $632.9 million endowment and a who’s who of trustees led by Jonathan Weiss, chief executive officer of corporate and investment banking at Wells Fargo & Co.
Lawrenceville, considered one of the best boarding schools in the U.S., is joining borrowers like a botanical garden in Pennsylvania and the territory of American Samoa by seizing on low interest rates and insatiable investor demand for muni bonds. The borrowing will help finance the $179 million complex dubbed the Tsai Field House, which was backed by donors like billionaire Joseph Tsai, executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., who is an alumnus of the school and trustee.
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