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share tips for town, gown life The second annual "Best Practices in Building University/City Relations Conference," which continues through the weekend, is focused on the importance of these relationships for both schools and the cities that surround them ... 70
years ago, labor took control of Lansing streets On June 7, 1937, 20,000 angry unionists parked their cars in the middle of the street and pressured shop owners to close stores to protest the arrest of a labor leader's wife. The "Lansing Labor Holiday" general strike - and the ensuing "Battle of East Lansing" - ended as quickly as it began. But some local historians say the events imbued Lansing with a strong pro-labor identity it hadn't had before ... New
uni set to push average house price up to £230,000 Parents keen to snap up private accommodation for their children attending the new St Margaret's University campus just outside the town are expected to push prices higher - while buy-to-let investors may also try to cash in on the expected increase in the rental market ... Researcher
studies affordable housing issues facing N.S. towns A Mount Allison University researcher will do the study in three college towns, Stellarton, Port Hawkesbury and Truro. David Bruce says the housing challenges facing community college students differ from those attending university ... Legislature
likely to kill effort to restrict student voting The House of Representatives voted 90-49 Wednesday in support of a motion to reject the bill. The Senate will consider a motion to kill it when it returns to the State House next week. The bill seeks to bar college students from out-of-state from voting in Maine if their residence is a dorm ... Area's
cultural capital? Winona hosts three big summer events Starting in late June and running through early August, Winona will host three major cultural events: The fourth annual Great River Shakespeare Festival, the first Minnesota Beethoven Festival and the first Gilmore Creek Summer Theatre. Winona, in other words, is offering a slate of events that many bigger cities can only envy ... Students
displaced for luxury condos “We want students to take advantage of that location, instead of rich alumni that will only use it for 10 weekends a year,” said Sarah Kamppila, nearby resident and host of an online petition to save the Stadium Apartments ... Dorm
trash storm Lenhoff was among 24 volunteers working on the new, week-long effort called "Operation Clean Sweep," which will funnel dormitory discards to six charities ... Collier
Enterprises buys The Village on Tharpe In May, Memphis-based Education Realty Trust Inc. agreed to sell its interest in The Village on Tharpe for $50 million to Tharpe Street Apartments LLC and N.W. 14th Street LLC, which are part of Collier Enterprises. It owns and operates several apartment communities in Florida, including four in Tallahassee ... UD,
home builders plan Citirama The groups are planning to release event details on Friday, according to a news release from UD. Highlights include five-unit townhouses and four renovated houses — projects estimated at $2.5 million and expected to be showcased at the August event. All told, the University of Dayton owns 328 houses and duplexes — unique on college campuses nationwide, according to school officials ... XU
plans center near campus Xavier has not publicly revealed details of the East Campus project and has not secured any specific tenants, but it envisions a combination of stores, entertainment and apartments to serve both students and the surrounding neighborhood. "We believe this will finally give us the college-town atmosphere we've been lacking," XU spokeswoman Kelly Leon said. The university has hired Covington developer Corporex Cos., and it continues to buy the remaining parcels it needs to complete a site bounded by Dana Avenue, Cleneay Avenue and Montgomery Road, extending west toward the 140-acre XU campus ... UR
Explores Idea--College Town on Mt. Hope Now UR is considering the development of a second college town on the other side of the river—and people are talking ... Welsh
university town rated best in Britain The Mid Wales town, home to around 7,000 students and a general population of just under 12,000, achieved the top rating in a survey of 34,000 students from 81 university towns across the UK ... American
Campus Selected to Develop 4,000 Beds at University of California, Irvine The multi-phase development project will be located on up to five separate land parcels on the East Campus of UCI. The first phase is expected to commence construction in 2008. Pre-development activities related to the transaction structure, financing, product types, construction phasing and management are underway. It is anticipated that the majority of transactions will be structured with American Campus providing third-party development and management services; however, equity investment by the company via its ACCE™ program is an option the University is considering for limited portions of the overall development. The project will target the US Green Building Council’s LEED silver or higher certified rating ... When
further education really pays In Leeds, for example, the student population has doubled in the past 10 years, which is one reason why Geoff Abbott, who lives in Buckinghamshire, has just bought three apartments in Green Bank, a new development by George Wimpey City ... Massive
expansion of university rolls causes problems for China Some experts worry that Chinese universities may face difficulties when the banks come calling around 2008. "Some universities may find themselves unable to repay their loans," ... Moving
Closer to Campus How much construction takes place in the short term largely depends on fund raising, which is still in the early stages. Within 10 years, Mason said he hopes the development projects will create two new neighborhoods — one built nearly from scratch, and the other radically modernized. The efforts dovetail (though differ in scope) with a recent spate of campus developments in less urban college towns ... Proposed
rental ordinance draws flak in college town The commissioners see the ordinance as a means to crack down on absentee landlords who don’t properly care for their properties. They said it is sometimes difficult to get cooperation from out-of-state landlords when problems arise over tenant behavior ... Blight
to bright The plan designated the area neighboring Fort Valley State University as the target area. A portion of the plan focuses on the State University Drive corridor project, a joint venture between the city and Fort Valley State to improve the aesthetics of the university's neighborhood. The project calls for placing a median on State University Drive as well as revitalizing neighboring streets and the Gano area ... Business
park sale before Durham council "This last election really spoke to the issue of what the residents in Durham value," Selig said. "And the Town Council now is open to considering environmentally friendly, development projects that will broaden the tax base but help sustain the character of Durham that we all cherish." ... GMH
Communities Trust Finalizes Sale Of Three Student Housing Properties [GCT] New
generation of voters stirs And in 2006, according to the institute's research, heavy turnout in college towns and otherwise youthful communities like Charlottesville, Va., and Missoula, Mont., played a key role in the election of Democratic senators in both states - Jim Webb in Virginia and Jon Tester in Montana. "Coming out of the major increases in young voter turnout in 2004 and 2006, and given the size of the political demographic and the increase in energy, 2008 will be a year when young adults have the potential to make their voices heard," said Kat Barr, a 29-year-old communications director at Young Voter Strategies, a nonprofit group at George Washington University ... DAVE
TRIPPIN: Athens, Ohio My
road is now a student ghetto Landlords have snapped up family homes and turned them into shared houses. Now 49 of the 54 properties in her road are so-called houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) Mrs Barter says their uncontrolled spread has created a student ghetto and destroyed the character of the area. Universities
open doors to major condo projects From the University of British Columbia in Vancouver to the University of Guelph in Ontario, post-secondary institutions are teaming up with private companies to develop on-campus market housing for the general public. In most, if not all, cases, developers build and sell high-rise, mid-rise and townhouse projects on university land under prepaid 99-year leases through strata corporations ...
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