The University of California, Merced, has announced plans for its next major phase of campus development. The four-year construction project will nearly double the physical capacity of the campus by 2020, allowing it to grow to 10,000 students while also providing a large number of area jobs. The university named Plenary Properties Merced the winning bidder for the expansion, making the project the first in the UC system to use a single private development team for a multi-year, multi-building project.