TownGown World discusses Purpose Built Housing
TownGownWorld.com - Dec 2007
... CANADA, UK, USA - TownGown World has recently published a discussion of Purpose Built housing, examining the role of PBD in the housing of a growing student population. Articles discussing this issue from developers, student groups, academics and neighbourhood groups make this discussion a "must read" for communities hosting higher educational institutions.
www.towngownworld.com

Single-family housing would target students
Congestion remains concern in Forest Lake
News - 22 Dec 2007
... TUSCALOOSA, AL - An old trailer park a mile from the University of Alabama could soon be replaced by a neighborhood of high-end Craftsman-style cottages with a historical feel.

The 132 homes, planned for the Arlington area off Hargrove Road, will have manicured lawns, sidewalks and trees, a clubhouse, a pool and be in a gated community. But unlike the older neighborhoods nearby, the new development with its single-family homes and duplexes isn't being marketed toward families.

Instead, the developers are seeking students ...

New UNLV housing complex unveiled
Business Press - 21 Dec 2007
... LAS VEGAS, NV - Students tired of dreary dorm life will soon be able to live in posh new digs. American Nevada Co., The Vista Group and Atlanta-based Place Properties are jointly developing a 3,000-unit student housing complex called Midtown Place at Maryland Parkway and Cottage Grove Ave., across from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. It replaces the nine-acre, 280-unit University Park Apartments at 4259 S. Maryland Pkwy, which was built in 1963. The complex currently offers two and three-bedroom units for $545 to $695 a month.

ANC Vista LLC acquired the University Park property for $28 million, or $3.1 million per acre, from Olympic Circle LLC earlier this year, county records show ...

Ancient University nears rebirth
KeralaOnline - 21 Dec 2007
... NALANDA, INDIA - Scientists from the National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) are conducting a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey in Bihar's Nalanda district to trace the location of the buried ancient structures of University of Nalanda which was established 450 CE under the patronage of the Gupta emperors ...

Officials discuss housing strategies
Journal - 20 Dec 2007
... ITHACA, NY — City of Ithaca Mayor Carolyn Peterson convened a round-table discussion Wednesday with representatives from Cornell University, Tompkins County and the city to discuss the Tompkins County-Cornell Housing Collaboration.

Participants planned to generate ideas on the housing collaboration draft and discuss how to implement $10 million of Cornell's promised $20 million community contribution over the next 10 years for housing ...

City Council OKs Columbia's move into West Harlem
NewsDay - 20 Dec 2007
... NEW YORK, NY - Columbia wants to build a 17-acre campus in Manhattanville for research labs and student housing. Area residents have expressed concern that the historic character of the neighborhood will be altered and that Columbia has refused to rule out the possibility of using eminent domain to acquire commercial properties ...

“Hill ’n the ’Ville”
Students and city business groups collaborate on groundbreaking downtown festival
Colby Magazine - Winter 2007
... WATERVILLE, ME - On a gray Saturday afternoon in September, Colby students boarded yellow school buses and headed downtown to Waterville for a day of music, fun—and relationship building.

Kicking off the academic year, the inaugural Hill ’n the ’Ville festival was designed to improve the student-town relationship as well as to help Colby students make a good first impression with area residents ...

Town-gown common ground
Globe - 19 Dec 2007
... ALLSTON, MA - HARVARD'S new president, Drew Faust, may be proceeding at a more deliberate pace than predecessor Lawrence Summers did on the expansion of the university into Allston. Even so, a milestone was passed late last month when the university agreed to a land swap with the 213-unit Charlesview affordable-housing complex at the Barry's Corner intersection. This acquisition will give Harvard the land necessary to make Barry's Corner the heart of a new campus that is attractive to both students and neighbors ...

Treasures Abound in Local Stacks
iBerkshires - 19 Dec 2007
... WILLIAMSPORT, MA - Any college town worth its ivied charm contains two buildings within walking distance of each other: a sufficiently old-fashioned post office and an independent bookstore.

In Williamstown, Spring Street provides the former, where the high windows and potted plants of the post office exude a gravitas befitting bald eagles and circulated mail. The latter's just a block east, where Water Street Books sits between a fire station and a boutique ...

Barnes & Noble gets OK to run Rowan bookstore
Courier Post - 19 Dec 2007
... GLASSBORO, NJ - According to the resolution, Barnes & Noble would eventually lease a new facility to be built adjacent to the campus on Glassboro's proposed Rowan Boulevard. Barnes & Noble is expected to sign the agreement soon, according to Joe Cardona, spokesman at Rowan. Barnes & Noble will operate as a combination university/general bookstore selling course material to students as well as books to the general public. The concept is common in other college towns.

University trustees signed other agreements last week.

One will permit Rowan to lease and manage a new 800-bed student housing facility near the campus. Sora, Glassboro's downtown redevelopment company, expects to break ground in July. The housing, to be constructed in phases, will be clustered around Route 322, Main Street and New Street ...

Shops, cinema, student housing and 312 apartments for Elephant Road
London SE1 - 19 Dec-r 2007
... LONDON, UK - Proposals for a major mixed-use development between New Kent Road, Elephant Road and Walworth Road have been given the green light by Southwark's planning committee ...

Neighbors oppose site of 5-story Christian dorm in Chapel Hill
Observer - 19 Dec 2007
... CHAPEL HILL, NC - Plans to build a five-story dorm for Christian students in Chapel Hill's historic district is facing resistance from neighbors ...

Neighbors oppose the plan because the dormitory would be built in the city's historic district. Neighbors have long complained that the university is encroaching on the area ...

Student apartment complex approved
Journal-World - 19 Dec 2007
... LAWRENCE, KS - Developers and some commissioners also said the community would benefit by having a large-scale development that specialized in providing student housing.

“I think there are a lot of students living in single-family neighborhoods right now who are causing concerns to some people,” ...

Fullerton council approves $140 million student housing project
Register - 19 Dec 2007
... FULLERTON, CA – Jefferson Commons, a 350-unit student housing complex proposed near Cal State Fullerton, won unanimous City Council approval Tuesday after three hours of testimony.
The $140-million project also includes retail, commercial and recreation space on 6.8 acres at the northwest corner of Commonwealth and Chapman avenues.

Council members overturned an Oct. 14 Planning Commission denial based on mass, density and architecture. Hope International University, which owns the parcel, appealed the decision ...

St. Joseph gets tough on rentals
Times - 19 Dec 2007
... ST JOSEPH, MN - Some attribute the lack of licenses to a swing in the housing market and to St. Joseph's roots as a college town, although officials say it's not exclusively a college housing problem.

One scenario stems from parents who buy homes for their children to live in and rent to friends while attending college, which is not a new phenomena. But when the student moves on, the parents have trouble selling the house because of a soft housing market and continue to rent the space without meeting the city's owner-occupied requirement ...

New University City to Be Erected Near Tzfat
IsraelNN.com - 18 Dec 2007
... TZFAT, ISRAEL - American real estate magnate Bob Stark and other investors will pour 3-4 billion dollars into a new college town in the Tzfat region, which will likely include a public medical school affiliated with Bar-Ilan University. The medical school, slated to be Israel's fifth, will be funded by a donation of approximately 500 million dollars, making it the first Israeli academic institution funded as part of a business enterprise. The town will also include housing, shopping centers, cultural establishments, and a hesder yeshiva ...

Residents pack Station to protest 'blight,' demand repeal of development ordinance
ClarksvilleOnline - 18 Dec 2007
... CLARKESVILLE, TN - ... plan as proposed by the Downtown District Partnership deems two square miles, 1800 homes and businesses, city and county buildings, and everything downtown except Austin Peay State University as blighted and subject to eminent domain. That has people worried about the possibility that their homes could be taken and turned over to developers, regardless of the condition of that property. Assemblage is a process by which developers needing to accrue multiple land parcels to complete a project could take any property, regardless of its condition, historic value or worth, to create a larger project/development ...

Housing for U of L planned
Ohio company will build 426 apartments next to former American Standard plant
Courier-Journal - 18 Dec 2007
... LOUISVILLE, KY - A Columbus, Ohio, developer plans to build 426 apartments that would be rented to University of Louisville students on property adjacent to the old American Standard plant off Shipp Avenue near Seventh Street. U of L recently sought proposals from developers to build up to 1,500 residential units for students that probably would be owned by the developer ...

Texas A&M Residence Halls Compete to Conserve Energy
NewsWire - 18 Dec 2007
... COLLEGE STATION, TX - Agriculture students residing on campus
have joined in Texas A&M's ongoing energy conservation program, which has helped the university avoid multi-millions of dollars in costs.

With one of the nation's largest on-campus dormitory operations, housing about 11,000 students, the program got a boost this semester when the university's 29 residence halls began competing to determine which could cut their energy consumption the most ...

City's rental market still strong
Herald-Times (subscription) - 18 Dec 2007
... BLOOMINGTON, IN - According to the figures provided in the study, Bloomington's average rent was alsohigher than its fellow college towns? for 2006, averaging $714 a month ...

The Housing Market's Credit Crisis Raises Worries in Higher Education
Chronicle - 18 Dec 2007
... USA - In California, public and private colleges have begun to work together on a new program to provide affordable housing for faculty members, many of whom have been priced out of the market.

Spearheaded by the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, the new Faculty Housing program will acquire homes in foreclosure and unsold inventory from developments where sales have been slow, and make them available to professors at affordable prices ...

Does Mixed-Income Work?
MPP students evaluate city's new inclusionary housing ordinance
Gazette - 17 Dec 2007
... BALTIMORE, MD - Thirty-five first-year graduate students in the university's Master of Public Policy program spent the fall semester analyzing the pluses and pitfalls of Baltimore's mixed-income neighborhoods to help city leaders better understand the implications of a recently enacted inclusionary housing ordinance ...

U of C student housing in dire shape
Towers need replacing or major repairs, report says
Deborah Tetley, Calgary Herald
Canada.com - 17 Dec 2007
... CALGARY, AB - The University of Calgary should tear down and replace five deteriorating residence towers within four years -- or invest tens of millions of dollars in repairs to salvage the structures for another decade, an external auditor has recommended ...

"Redevelopment Ordinance Concerns Clarksville Residents" Video
WKRN - 17 Dec 2007
... CLARKSVILLE, TN - Months ago, the Clarksville City Council passed an ordinance that lists several downtown communities as "blighted" areas.

Now, many residents are urging city leaders to rethink their decision.

Patsy Sharpe has lived in Clarksville for 17 years and she has spent many of them restoring her old Victorian home.

“We've only done things to improve the area, help the city,” she told News 2. “We've been community servants and we're just outraged something like this could happen without our knowledge." ...

Neighbors say thanks for a job well done
Alternative fair a success
Post Crescent- 16 Dec 2007
... APPLETON, WI - Students' War Against Hunger and Poverty, a student organization at Lawrence University, hosted the first Alternative Giving Fair on Dec. 1.

More than 300 people, including members of both the Lawrence community and the Appleton community, braved the first big snowstorm of the season and came to the event. At the end of the day, $1,200 went to purchase gifts made in developing countries, with 90 percent of the profits going back to the individuals who made the gifts, and $9,000 was donated to various humanitarian causes and organizations ...

South University Students Give Holiday Makeover to Family in Need Video
WTOC - Dec 2007
... SAVANNAH, GA - We hear about home makeovers all the time, but what about holiday makeovers? This is the time of year when many people take it upon themselves to make sure those less fortunate have a merry Christmas.

And that's what some South University students are doing. For three years now, they have surprised a family in need with an extreme holiday makeover ...

Small N.H. city takes on global warming challenge
Globe - 16 Dec 2007
... KEENE, NH - The idea is to seed the city with visible green role models and have them reach out to friends, neighbors, and co-workers - essentially using the same type of peer pressure that makes teens want to wear Ugg boots and North Face jackets.

"We want to get people to do the right thing because it's cool to do it," said Mikaela Engert, Keene's city planner. "We're trying to make [environmentalism] part of the fabric of the city." ...

Tenants group, Brandeis students grow together
Globe - 16 Dec 2007
... WALTHAM, MA - For years, tenants of the Prospect Terrace Apartments, Waltham's largest public housing complex, were united only in their complaints of mold, asbestos, and bed bugs. Now, with the help of some college students, the tenants are becoming organized like never before.

In October, the residents partnered with Brandeis University to spruce up the complex's landscaping. Last month, tenants successfully lobbied the Waltham Housing Authority for a long-desired community center. And Monday, elections for officers of the revived tenants' association were held, with the promise of keeping residents organized in the future ...

The buzz on campus is over coed dorm rooms
NorthJersey - 16 Dev 2007
... USA - Consider it the latest step in the evolution away from single-sex dormitories.

Some 30 universities nationwide, including Montclair State, allow men and women to share suites and even dorm rooms ...

In charge of an expanding PSU footprint
Oregonian - 16 Dec 2007
... PORTLAND, OR - Portland's reputation as a fine place to live comes thanks in large part to its healthy downtown. The vibrant downtown was mostly built by developers who are mostly male.

Then there's Lindsay Desrochers.

Desrochers' official title makes her vice president at Portland State University. But in reality, she's a real estate developer who has the rare good fortune to control a good-size patch of downtown ...

UA to pay $518,500 for four properties
State agency must approve eminent domain settlement on land for stadium and housing
Beacon Journal - 16 Dec 2007
... AKRON, OH - The University of Akron is close to settling two eminent domain lawsuits it had filed to acquire land for a football stadium and student housing ...

The purchases would be part of a multiblock area east of campus that UA is buying to accumulate enough land for a $61.5 million stadium, plus $2.5 million in financing costs, and a $32.5 million residence hall ...

Initiative to prepare Bethlehem for change
Lehigh University and community to discuss good and bad of future casino.
Morning Call- 16 Dec 2007
... BETHLEHEM, PA - ''What we really want is to find ways to create constructive partnerships with people in south Bethlehem, and during this period of transition, that's really crucial,'' Moglen said.

The initiative recently launched a Web site (cas.lehigh.edu/ssi) that provides information about Sands BethWorks' plans for the $800 million casino complex. The site, which has an extensive timeline of the casino project, eventually will provide an online forum for community discussion ...

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