LEESBURG — The final pieces of Beacon College’s downtown Leesburg campus fell into place with the purchase of two empty lots from where the school’s academic “heart” will beat, according to a college spokesman.

Beacon paid $399,000 for the lots. Purchased from the George M. Mathew Family Trust and the Lourdes M. Mathew Family Trust, the physical address is 115 E. Main St.

“The initial designs call for classrooms, an auditorium and conference center,” said Darryl Owens, college spokesman.

There was no immediate timeline for the start of construction. Located on the south side of Main Street next to Beacon Hall, the college’s administration building, the purchases are the last planned for Main Street.

“The acquisition of the Mathew property completes, in large measure, the master plan that we have envisioned for our institutional footprint taking us well into the future,” Beacon President George J. Hagerty said in a news release.

The college owns several properties on both sides of the street in the heart of the downtown district.

The nonprofit college started in 1989 to serve student with dyslexia, ADHD and other learning disabilities. The college offers several academic programs including business management, computer information, humanities and psychology. The latest academic addition is a bachelor’s degree program in anthrozoology — the study of how humans and animals interact.

The college is in the midst of a major remodel of another of their properties on Main Street. That project encompasses the south side of the street from Palmetto to First Street. When finished, the exterior of the building will resemble the brick and stucco façade of Beacon Hall.

The school boasts an enrollment of 350 students from around the U.S. and internationally. The college hopes to grow to about 500 students in the next several years, Owens said.

Keeping enrollment manageable is central to the school’s commitment of offering students more personal support to deal with their learning issues. It’s something, they say, larger schools struggle with because of their size.

“We offer a setting that is acculturated to them; that understands their difference,” Owens said. “Sometimes, mainstream institutions don’t have the same kind of support.”

During the past nine years, almost 84 percent of their graduates went on to employment or graduate school, according to an internal study.

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges accredits the college.

Beacon’s growth has helped transform downtown Leesburg. Besides the Main Street purchases and renovations, the college also renovated a dilapidated train depot on North Palmetto Street near downtown. That building serves as the student and faculty fitness center. The college also bought apartment complexes on the north and south side of Main that serve as student housing. Before the lot purchases, the college’s last major purchase was the massive, 1920s-era A.S. Herlong & Co. citrus packing house that stretched from Third Street to Palmetto, north of Main. That building came down in May and will become student housing.