{"id":153399,"date":"2026-02-12T19:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/153399\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:48:10","slug":"building-housing-fgcus-water-school-named-for-miromar-development-ceo-antonier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/153399\/","title":{"rendered":"Building housing FGCU&#8217;s Water School named for Miromar Development CEO Antonier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gulf Coast University&#8217;s Board of Trustees Thursday approved the naming of Academic Building 9 as Margaret Antonier Hall, honoring a $10 million philanthropic commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Academic Building 9 is the home of The Water School and other STEM-focused programs, classrooms and research laboratories that bring together faculty, staff and students from across disciplines. Completed in 2022, the facility is currently the largest academic building on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Antonier is the president and CEO of Miromar Development, and widely regarded as a leader who helped shape modern-day Estero with the creation of Miromar Lakes, Miromar Outlets, the Miromar Design Center and University Village. FGCU awarded her an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>She is also a long-time champion of FGCU, supporting students through scholarships and establishing the university\u2019s first endowed fund for student success.<\/p>\n<p>The gift will be endowed, with proceeds supporting The Water School.<\/p>\n<p>WGCU is your trusted source for news and information in Southwest Florida. We are a nonprofit public service, and your support is more critical than ever. Keep public media strong and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wgcu.secureallegiance.com\/wgcu\/WebModule\/Donate.aspx?P=JOURNALISM&amp;PAGETYPE=PLG&amp;CHECK=Fh6V9MuzTVcdN7RxIr2SYb1YhDw50SikSh2nq0qouhg%3d\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">donate\u00a0<\/a>now. Thank you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Gulf Coast University&#8217;s Board of Trustees Thursday approved the naming of Academic Building 9 as Margaret Antonier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-153399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}