For lease: a 20-by-50-foot paved space complete with electricity and water.

The terms: $15,000 over the next five years plus a $250 annual maintenance fee for the next 20 years.

Oh, and you can use it seven football weekends a year at the University of Tennessee.

UT hopes to build a $625,000 recreational vehicle park for football fans near the new soccer stadium off Neyland Drive this summer — so long as enough donors commit to pay for the project by May 1.

"If they don't sell the spots, they won't do it," said Tiffany Carpenter, director of public relations for the UT Athletics Department. "If we don't have commitments for all of them by May 1, it won't happen this year."

The 50-space lot would come with amenities that UT currently doesn't offer Volunteer fans traveling to home games in RVs, including electricity and water taps for each space as well as a couple of sanitary off-load stations.

John Currie, a senior associate athletic director at UT, said the proposed park was the result of requests from RV-driving fans as well as a need for a new RV space.

UT has been using two areas for game-time RV parking: one at the C-3 parking lot behind the steam plant and another on the University of Tennessee Agricultural campus.

Neither have amenities.

Currie said other schools that UT plays already have enhanced RV facilities.

"That was the first (reason)," he added. "The second thing was that one of our RV lots (C-3) across the street from the arena on Lake Loudoun (Boulevard) has just become too crowded over the last several years. We're trying to squeeze really large RVs into the area and it's just not safe."

UT isn't going to allow RV parking in that lot anymore.

RV owners who parked in C-3 in the past will have two options — moving to a space on the Ag campus or buying into the new park.

Currie said UT currently parks between 75 to 100 recreational vehicles at the Ag campus and 25 to 30 at the C-3 Lot.

Dozens of other RV owners park in privately owned lots scattered around UT and downtown Knoxville.

The RV owners who park on campus are donors, at a certain level, to either UT's Athletics Department or the university's academic programs.

The proposed facility is listed as The University of Tennessee Recreational Vehicle Parking Center.

"All the funding is provided by the people who are actually using the space," Currie said.

"There aren't any athletics or university dollars that are going to create that space," he added.

Under UT's plan, users would pay $15,000, payable over five years, and an annual $250 maintenance fee to get a space for 20 years.

The maintenance fee would be used for utilities and upkeep, "so the university doesn't lose money on that," Carpenter said.

That means an RV-owning donor would pay a total of $20,000 over 20 years, which works out to something less than $150 a weekend for each home game.

UT would raise a total of $1 million over the 20 years.

The university has mailed a letter to RV owners about the new lot, and Currie said Wednesday the university already has some commitments.

The lot would be used for soccer stadium parking the rest of the fall.

UT officials were not able to explain Wednesday exactly how the construction would be financed.

The project will cost an estimated $625,000. But because RV owners who sign on for the spots are only obliged to pay a minimum of $3,000 a year over five years, there could be as little as $150,000 this spring to pay the project.

On the other hand, RV owners could conceivably pay $750,000 up front.

It wasn't clear Wednesday where the difference between any potential shortfall and the $625,000 would come from.

Currie said fans in the C-3 lot would have the first opportunity at the new RV Park.

Randy Kenner may be reached at 865-342-6305.