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1-7 Eskisehir
posed to become Turkish Silicon Valley This unique university town located three hours west of Ankara, has developed into a world class city thanks to Yilmaz Büyükersen, mayor of the city since 1999 and Anadolu University's first rector. It should come as no surprise then, that Eskisehir's city and campus life are truly integrated ... UL
works to house students The expansion will include three new buildings - one of which will serve as a partial replacement of married housing apartments that were torn down to make room for the project ... Liberty
Village may be used for student housing The Liberty Village units have been unoccupied since the project's original developers went belly up and ultimately filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March 2004. LU work crews are now sprucing up Liberty Village's buildings and lawns in an attempt to have the units ready for students at the beginning of fall semester ... EKU
Projects could be OK’d Developer
sees hotel as dorm Dale Bernards, a Portland, Ore., real estate developer and investor, said he remains interested in buying the former Hyatt Regency hotel but said a market study convinced him it would be foolhardy to try to operate it as a 369-room hotel again ... FAU
predicts enrollment growth to 28,665 students by 2015 Associate Provost Michael Armstrong outlined enrollment projections recently for the FAU Board of Trustees, figures that show some 26,085 students will arrive on the first day of school in 2007. Last year, the number of students on FAU’s campuses dipped to 25,657 from the 2005 figure of 25,994, Armstrong told board members ... STUDENT
HOMES FACE NEW CRACKDOWN And if extended to university cities in Wales, they could prevent inner-city areas being taken over by student homes ... UVic
launches Canada’s first university-wide community-based research
office The office is the first university-wide initiative of its kind in the country and is attracting national and international interest from other institutions seeking closer research ties with community groups ... Grant
to help Miami University study of historic structures Also, a new Presidential Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation Planning will provide guidance regarding campus historic preservation issues. As part of the project's outreach the university will coordinate historic preservation planning efforts with the city of Oxford and community residents. The preservation plan will "...not be treating the university as an island unto itself, but rather as it exists within the community," ... With
doors open, N.Y.U. invites community into planning process “Nobody can remember the last time those doors were open,” said John Beckman, the university’s spokesperson. “The people in Lori Mazor’s group felt it was important to open them.” The custodial staff didn’t have the key, however, so N.Y.U. had to call a locksmith to open the entrance ... In a statement to The Villager about the open house, Sexton said: “This century will see the development around the world of six or eight ‘idea capitals.’ It is vital to the future of New York that it be one of them, a fact increasingly recognized by New York’s public officials. And in its great research universities, New York has the assets to succeed. But as universities advance, they must do so in a way that maintains the character of their neighborhoods and the city ... Student
housing vote put on hold in Indiana County Borough council voted to table any action on the ordinance at its meeting this week because three council members were absent ... Geneseo
tackles problem rentals The task force was formed to find new ways to deal with property owners who do nothing about repeated violations of village code and state law on their land. It has made six recommendations, including a new system for keeping landlords apprised of problems and a "three strikes" law that could result in fines of up to $1,000 ... Oxford
wants tough alcohol sales laws The Oxford Board of Aldermen is circulating proposals to lawmakers and officials in Lafayette County and the University of Mississippi for changes in the state's liquor laws, including mandatory jail time for first time DUI offenders. The decision to seek changes in state law came this week after Oxford aldermen toughened the city's alcohol ordinance ... Danville
relives magical summer of 'Raintree County' movie Fifty years later, many whose lives were touched by the Civil War epic are reopening their scrapbooks and their memories for Danville's Raintree County Festival. Turner Classic Movies, a major sponsor of the event, has been promoting the festival on its Web site and on the TCM Network during its commercial breaks -- "Hollywood in My Hometown." ... Best
selling author coming home for book signing Her first book was published in 1985, after the family left Meadville for New Orleans. "I really loved Meadville, except for the weather," Richards said. "I loved its size, its ambiance and its community feeling. It's got a lot of culture for a small town because of the college and my children got a good start in school there." ... Letter:
Why are there no taxis at night? I am a 22-year-old who has to make this decision. Most towns that I go out in there is a taxi service that I can call, but not River Falls ... If a city of 15,000 — River Falls — can’t make that happen, there is a problem. Let’s face the facts: This is a college town, students are going to drink. Let’s try to make it as safe as possible ... Do
We Really Want Big Brother Watching Us? Yet whether or not you’ve done anything wrong, when you’re the one being watched, life suddenly feels more oppressive. And it won’t stop with surveillance cameras on the streets. As Rob Selevitch, president of the security company CEI Management Corp., predicts, “Cradle to grave, you’re going to be on camera all the time.” Imagine having every conversation you’ve ever had or every place you’ve ever visited tracked by someone behind a camera. It’s a chilling thought—or at least it should be to anyone who values their privacy ... Editorial:
Downtown Waco ready for changes The Baylor students who volunteer to help clean up downtown deserve the sincere thanks of all Waco residents for their labors on behalf city beautification. After Aug. 18, Baker said “the graffiti will be gone in downtown Waco, and we’re going to keep it gone.” ... New
uni could lead to property boom The new campus, being built by the University of Central Lancashire and Burnley College, is expected to attract more than 1,000 new students to by 2009 when it opens as an outpost campus of UCLan ... Minnesota
college town admits heroin problem among high schoolers More than 150 kids are hooked on the drug, Northfield Police Chief Gary Smith said Tuesday. He decided to publicize the problem with a news conference, where he said that as many as 250 current and former Northfield High School students could be involved — some feeding heroin habits of as much as $800 a day ... Oxford
strengthens alcohol ordinance Under the changes approved by the board Tuesday, Oxford businesses will face a loss of their beer permits and business privilege licenses for repeated violations, including serving under-age drinkers ... CONDOS
BREAK FROM COLLEGE-TOWN STYLE Did they ever ... Davidson cherishes its college-town quaintness and it has a reputation among developers as being fiercely protective. "It makes sense that the architect express his concept directly to the town board," Krider said. "It's important to have that buy in." ... Landlords
fight town’s rental law If adopted, the new ordinance would reduce the number of unrelated people living in a dwelling from five to three, mandate licensing and inspection of rental units, and impose penalties on landlords for disruptive conduct of tenants ...
Asheville
one of “Outside” magazines “Best Towns in America” “Cradled in a lush green bowl and surrounded on all sides by the Appalachian Mountains, this is an island of liberal alternative culture. And this town serves up more than 2,000 miles of hiking and mountain-biking trails and some of the nation's finest whitewater creeking.” ... Other [college] towns include: Crowded
multifamily homes studied College Park council members for years have cited overcrowding of apartments by University of Maryland students as a fire hazard. Neighbors have also complained of students’ excessive rowdiness. Student
Housing Portfolio Trades for $256M With the purchase, Campus Apartments now holds student housing properties in 11 states from Pennsylvania to California, with a total of more than 12,000 beds. To accommodate the new assets, the firm will add more than 150 new employees. "This portfolio allows us to extend the Campus Apartments brand to new university markets nationwide," said company president & CEO David Adelman, who went on to say that the firm planned to continue a similar investment strategy over the next few years ... STUDENTS HELP
REBUILD THE ARBOR DISTRICT WITH SWEAT AND SMARTS The Dugans were attracted to the house on Cherry as an investment while going to school. Over the past few years they have added bathrooms, sanded wood floors and brought the house back to its best shape in the last half century ... A
new kind of apartment Education Realty Trust, Inc., a Memphis-based realty group that specializes in student housing, revealed plans Friday for a new state-of-the-art student apartment complex, which will be named The Reserve at Saluki Pointe ... Condo
residents won't oppose Suffolk dorm Suffolk University, which was rebuffed by City Hall in its attempt to build a 550-bed dormitory on Beacon Hill, instead purchased a condominium project that was under way at 10 West St., a block up Washington Street from Avery Street, where Millennium Place is located. The sale closed last week. The price was $32 million ... Sky-high
student housing Phoenix Property Company of Dallas, which leads the development team, has built or is contracting GrandMarc complexes near five other US campuses. They are designed for college and graduate students, but without the rules and supervision of a dormitory ... American
Campus Communities Announces Second Quarter 2007 Earnings Release and
Conference Call Developer's
rebuff by city may end up in legal battle Neighbours near UWO and Fanshawe College have complained about an influx of student housing. Real estate investors are gobbling up homes near the university and college while developers are converting existing homes or building new structures often with up to five bedrooms in each unit ... City
approves one apartment building, but balks at endorsing Main Street and
West Avenue complex Commission member George Italiano expressed concern the project would allow student housing to further encroach into an area that once was single-family homes in what could be historic buildings. “We need to contain this. I don’t mind a few here and there,” he said. “This is getting to be too much.” ... Evanston's
lofty skyline dilemma The idea is to bring back the old retail centers as residential villages. They're pulling in young people, professionals, gays and empty-nesters; people fed up with outer suburbia's left-turn lanes and soulless strip malls; people seeking a taste of urban chic, or just a sense of place, without having to move to the city proper. There are more such people, it turns out, than anyone had imagined ... Urban
housing lures variety of buyers "We are about to see a seismic shift in housing patterns" from the suburbs to downtown, he predicts. "This is basically the tip of the iceberg for downtown housing." ... Elders:
Local criticism unwarranted Why punish church? Yea,
rah to these campuses Here's some to look at (in no particular order) and what we like about them. Austin, TX Burlington
faces hard financial times From
Silicon Valley To Running A B&B Still, Howie wasn't convinced. In the end, and despite it looking rational on the spreadsheet, Ashland was an "entirely emotional" choice, Ellen says. Ellen won out, and Howie gives her "complete credit for their making the right decision." They began planning their transition in 2000. They were exhausted by the travel and hours their jobs demanded, and sensed the dot-com bust on the horizon. In 2001 they found the Chanticleer - named after the rooster in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" - Ashland's oldest continually operating inn ...
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