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1-4 Trustees
approve "lodges" at IU-Southeast The housing would be built around a lake on the New Albany campus. Two state agencies still must approve plans for the 20 million dollar project, which Chancellor Sandra Patterson-Randles says could be completed by fall 2008. The lodges would be the first on-campus housing at the campus across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky... Students
rate city best place to live in UK Scotland's Capital scored significantly higher than London and Cambridge
and narrowly pipped well-known university cities including Belfast, Oxford,
Swansea and Cardiff, in the poll of 32,000 students. Students from 78 university towns rated their location across five criteria - going out, shops, transport links, community and facilities... Student
groups work together to make voting easier The University Programs Campus Daytime Committee, Residents’ Interhall Congress, University Housing, NAACP and Young Democrats joined to bring Democracy on Wheels to the University of Arkansas. The programs offers rides to and from the courthouse in the days before the Tuesday’s general election to encourage students to exercise their voting rights... It
Takes a Village — Charles Village — to Make a College Town Life
in a college town: Struggling with real-life decisions Everything we achieve in high school prepares us for the next level, but all the busy work and pop quizzes in the world won’t prepare anyone for what’s next. As someone who has gone to community college, worked a semester in the real world and now is going to a four-year university, I can say that each decision has been difficult to make and they have all varied... Making
The Grade To identify the best spots, we asked the Longitudes Group to crunch the numbers. It found more than 20 college towns with at least four quality private and public courses. Among them were predictable venues like Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill (Duke, University of North Carolina), Eugene (University of Oregon), and Boulder (University of Colorado). It also identified some less obvious towns such as Ann Arbor (University of Michigan)... Housing
grows off-campus The property at 5525 S. Alameda St. will be known as Islander Village. The project is being developed by Campus Village Alameda LP, and managed by Hammond Jones Real Estate Development, headquartered in Austin... Motel
leeway irks W&M students It's a city law they've called needless and unfair. Now there's a new term: hypocritical. William and Mary students have long struggled with the law. Most recently, the city's zoning board denied a special permit this year from a student who owned a six-bedroom house and wanted to house himself and four friends in it... Hamden
mayor cracking down on off-campus housing Mayor Craig Henrici is enforcing a town ordinance prohibiting more than four un-related people from living with each other. The measure is geared toward Quinnipiac University students living off campus. People
in University Town Talk About Way of Life Video "Met a lot of really great people being here," said Jeffrey Webb, the owner of Starlight Books and Coffee in Athens... Webb says Athens is a perfect place for him to do business. "The town spirit is unique. We have a very active community that is working together on things like building a new fire department, building a new town hall, planting more trees in town, improving the sidewalks, so that the kids can walk to school. And we can walk around town and have more exercise," said Bard. But even without the improvements, many people in Athens will tell you they're proud of their hometown... Community
Foundation celebrates 10 years of growth The Oxford Community Foundation celebrated all that and more at its annual meeting and 10th anniversary celebration Oct. 22... Housing,
football: 'You get twice the bang for your buck' According to a survey released Thursday by national real estate company Coldwell Banker, Hattiesburg has the second-best housing prices of any college football town in Division I-A, topped only by Tulsa. It's not the first time Hattiesburg has lost out to the landlocked Midwestern city - the Hurricanes, defending conference champions, beat the Golden Eagles 20-6 earlier this season... OSU-Tulsa
eyes housing The authority voted to pay MGT of America Inc., based in Tallahassee, Fla., $66,780 to determine the feasibility of on-campus housing, see what kinds of students want to live there and find out what kind of housing the students want... Miami
Dade College aims to share prime site Any interested developer must agree to build five or six stories of community college classrooms, offices, labs and an auditorium... U's
neighbors discuss impact While creating an environmental-impact statement for the new on-campus football stadium, members of the Stadium Area Advisory Group, which includes neighborhood residents, decided a broader study on the University impact was in order. The group hired Dan Cornejo, a St. Paul-based private consultant who began work in October, to meet with residents as well as University and city officials to discuss a variety of issues... Town,
UNC confront Carolina North housing Community members, led by Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton, and university representatives, led by Carolina North Executive Director Jack Evans, agreed that the proposed research campus should not exacerbate the affordable housing problem in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. They agreed also that the price range of homes at Carolina North should more or less mirror the income range of the employees who will work at the campus, though skewed toward lower-priced homes... Younger
home buyers bring market changes "It's the trade-off generation. It's no longer sort of the live-large mindset," Chung said. "They're living under different economic realities than their predecessors. They carry 70% more debt than the baby boomers did at that point in their lives because of the cost of housing.... Almost all of that is housing debt." Many are forgoing master suites and separate wings for kids and adults and instead seeking smaller footprints with space designed for family usage rather than individual usage... As for Generation Y, also know as the echo boomers who were born after 1980, it's premature to draw conclusions, Gadi Kaufmann, chief executive of Robert Charles Lesser and Co., a real estate advisory firm, said during a ULI panel discussion on what young consumers want. "Gen Y is going to be in student housing and rentals for the next six years," he said. See how student housing has changed today... Housing
Office Needs Teeth As first-hand memory of the incident fades and seemingly minor details like the bars on house windows go unnoticed, Georgetown absolutely must institutionalize greater safety and accountability checks on area landlords and off-campus housing... American
Campus Communities reports Q3 loss The Austin-based developer and owner of university housing communities reports a loss of $1.6 million, or 9 cents a share, for the just-ended quarter, compared with a $600,000 loss in third quarter 2005. The company says the loss stems from an increase in interest expense. Revenue for the quarter was up 48 percent over the previous year to $30.9 million... Displeased,
Not Disaffected Local
volunteers build ‘Home-in-a-box’ Volunteers from Ithaca College, Cornell University and the Ithaca community spent the day in the Lowe’s parking lot building the framework of a house that will be shipped to Mississippi for victims of Hurricane Katrina... Seton
Hill breaks ground In the spring, construction crews will begin their work, building the Seton Hill University Center for the Performing Arts... "This is not a building Seton Hill University is building downtown," university President JoAnne Boyle said. "This is part of a larger idea of what Greensburg can be ... if we all think imaginatively enough and with courage and we all work together."... Larry Segal, executive director of the Governor's Office of Housing and Community Revitalization, extolled the work Seton Hill and Greensburg officials have done on the center. "I don't care where you go in the state ... nobody is better, nobody exemplifies the real potential of town-and-gown relations better than Seton Hill University and the city of Greensburg," Segal said... High-rise
plan moving forward Architect Gary Brink showed the commission the blueprints of “454 West” and the majority of the members approved of the design. However, some worried how well individually owned condos will do in a student-centered market. “454 West is being geared towards a younger population,” said Justin Harder, the Project Manager of Brink’s team. “The interior design, floor plans and technology are geared more towards students.” 454 West will be built across from The Aberdeen, a popular student high rise at 437 W. Gorham St. The ground floor is designated for commercial use and a health club and lap pool are planned for the second level... Leasing
season too early There’s no question that Madison boasts an overabundance of student housing — and no matter how long students wait, landlords won’t start demolishing their massive apartment complexes or leveling their Mifflin Street homes. The enormous new buildings near the corner of University Avenue and Bassett Street have added thousands of apartments to the market over the past decade, and the old Camp Randall-area homes aren’t going anywhere. What’s more, brand new luxury dorms are luring some potential upperclassmen from the off-campus options they might have considered otherwise, leaving even more wiggle room for students... On-campus
construction efforts continue "All of the construction is part of an academic vision," Leopard said. "It's all about student experience here at the University. You have the Rec Center and the brand new Shelby science building and what's being done at Graves." By bringing more modern facilities to the University, Leopard said students can expect improvements in the qualities of all areas of campus life. "It's really giving students a much more modern place to become educated, and all of the construction is part of a greater goal," he said. "We have the chance to have a great impact on the University, and if we do it right we can leave a mark on the University for a long time to come, and I love having that challenge."... Controversial
complex a step closer Despite a series of speeches from neighbors concerned about the project, the committee voted 5-2 to allow the development to proceed. ASU plans to partner with American Campus Communities, a Texas-based developer, to build a 1,850-bed housing complex for upperclassmen... The
grass is always greener The girls found paper towels under a radiator and cracked or missing tiles on the kitchen and bathroom floors. There were no ground wires for electricity, and none of the fire alarms worked. The only fire extinguisher downstairs was “ancient,” Pedati said. “It’s been an absolutely miserable experience."... American
Campus Communities, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2006 Financial Results Highlights
Team
to tackle unruly After years of growing complaints about student rowdiness, vandalism, housing and, more recently, violence, Mayor Anne Marie DeCicco-Best said it's time a committee be established to get all sides talking to find solutions. City,
university keep one another afloat Car-sharing
company opens service in Ann Arbor Cambridge, Mass.-based Zipcar Inc. expanded its car-sharing business to Ann Arbor Wednesday, offering vehicles for use by the day or the hour to riders who don't drive enough to justify buying a car and paying for insurance. Daley
calls for more Loop dorms The new dorms would be modeled after University Center, the $151 million dormitory partnership between Columbia College, Roosevelt University and DePaul at State and Congress... Growth
at what price? Tempe residents, students and ASU professors have expressed concern these new developments - and the residents they bring - could make Mill Avenue less of a student hangout, further increase downtown traffic congestion and make housing unaffordable in surrounding neighborhoods... La
Crosse asks FBI to review river drownings The most recent to die was popular basketball player Lucas Homan, 21, who was pulled from the Mississippi River on Oct. 2. Like the seven college-age men found before him over the past nine years, Homan disappeared after a night of heavy drinking in La Crosse and was later found in the river, which is two blocks from the bar district that adjoins the midsized, three-college town... Alcohol
crackdown set at UM At least not yet. "We are holding off until we have a chance to work more closely with the local community," said Sparky Reardon, Ole Miss' dean of students... Investments
Valued at $63 Million Announced for Place/BV Student Housing Fund Bob Clark, Chief Financial Officer for Place Properties said, "The location of the three assets is unbeatable and all three markets meet our underwriting criteria of high barriers to entry. We will continue to seek investments that enable us to execute our strategy of building a portfolio of high quality student housing assets."... GMH
Communities Trust Completes Capstone Portfolio Acquisition with Purchase
of 11th Property Condos
planned at Ind. 23, Douglas Developers
still using renters to create special tax districts They are living there, along with three other people, at the invitation of a Colleyville-based developer, paying lower-than-market rents. Realty Capital Belmont Ltd. set up all six residents temporarily so that a special tax district election can be scheduled sometime in the near future. The taxes set during that election, with as few as five or six voters, will allow the developer to tax future home and business owners to help pay for the water and sewer lines, roads and other infrastructure. Despite many revisions to Texas law meant to curtail abuse of public financing for large-scale subdivisions originally meant to help poor and rural areas, the practice by real estate developers of moving several people into mobile homes set on large tracts of land and then calling an election for a taxing district continues in Denton County...
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