Artist’s touch joins town with gown
Standard Journal - 23 Feb 2008
... LEWISBURG, PA - Some of the most successful ideas start out as spur-of-the-moment inklings hatched on a bar stool on a balmy, mid-summer night. At least, this one did.
Ella Watson had been hanging out at the Bull Run Inn with a few friends when she decided the restaurant’s walls could use an artist’s touch. But more than that, she had a vision of the bar as one of the few places you’ll likely find a good mix of college students and townspeople ...

Neighborhood that lasts: Montana Preservation Alliance to honor founders, advocates of homeowners association
Missoulian - 23 Feb 2008
... MISSOULA, MT - “One of the things I always noticed when I did come back was the university district looked as good, if not better, than it had when I had seen it before, whether it was five years or 10 years or whatever it might have been,” he said. “I marveled at that.” ...

As a companion to the piece, Oliver enlisted a cameraman and editors from the journalism school to produce a short film touting the history, architecture and preservation of Missoula's university district housing ...

University of Montana University District Houses YouTube Video
Missoula, Montana - University District pictures on MontanaPictures.net

Spartan Village to get greener - 34 buildings set to be razed
$5.2M project set to begin in July, wrap up by Oct.
State Journal - 23 Feb 2008
... EAST LANSING, MI - By next year, a cluster of buildings at the northeast corner of Spartan Village Apartments at Michigan State University will have been replaced by a broad swath of green space.

On Friday the MSU Board of Trustees approved the demolition of 34 buildings that were built as family housing in the late 1950s, as well as the removal of their parking lots and the roads that lead to them ...

UNC-Greeley partnership focus of new effort
Tribune - 23 Feb 2008
... GREELEY, CO - A partnership of private investment and university brainpower, with an eye toward revitalizing downtown, is the goal behind efforts to ramp up the University of Northern Colorado's profile in Greeley.

Those efforts took a step forward last week when officials from UNC, the Greeley Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown Development Authority and Greeley City Council attended a two-day conference, "University as a Civic Partner," in Phoenix ...

Developer hopeful to meet with city Kent officials to hear proposal
Record-Courier - 22 Feb 2008
... KENT, OH - The second of three development groups looking to partner with the city of Kent in rebuilding a downtown block will meet with city leaders today to discuss their redevelopment proposal ...

The firm envisions the core development in Kent as revolving around three key components, which include high-quality housing, retail space and a hotel and conference center. A major part of the residential component would include student housing, according to the document ...

University signs on to a pact to reduce its impact
DowntownExpress - 22 Feb 2008
... GREENWICH VILLAGE, NY - It could be the end of years of bitterness between New York University and its Village neighbors.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and New York University President John Sexton on Jan. 30 signed what they characterized as “historic town-gown principles” that set guidelines for the future expansion of N.Y.U. for the next 25 years and take into account neighborhood concerns about the scale of development.

Changing Skyline: Developers in the city - Hard to hold 'em down
Inquirer - 22 Feb 2008
... PHILADELPHIA, PA - The developers of Campus Inn - Campus Apartments, Hersha Hotels and Tom Lussenhop - also argue that their 11-story, 115-foot-tall hotel is an extension of a commercial corridor along 40th Street, between the major transit connections at Market Street and Baltimore Avenue ...

If many of those homes had not long ago been turned into low-rent, ill-kempt student housing (many operated by Campus Apartments), the area might rival New Orleans' Garden District. Unlike Society Hill, Spruce Hill didn't have the good political luck of being granted historic-district protection. The mansion that occupies the Pine Street corner has been trashed beyond recognition ...

Community concerned about rental houses
Rocket - 22 Feb 2008
... SLIPPERY ROCK, PA - The Slippery Rock community is concerned with an overabundance of rental houses for students, and as a result, the borough has established an exploratory study committee to try to resolve the issue ...

Town Hall Treats Housing Concerns
Emory Wheel - 22 Feb 2008
... ATLANTA, GA - Approximately 30 students and some faculty and administrators voiced concerns about parking, environmental sustainability and the timing of Campus Crossings’ completion date at the town hall meeting.

Mike Mandl, Emory’s executive vice president for finance and administration, said Campus Crossings is part of a graduate student housing master plan developed a few years ago in response to a survey of graduate students, who demanded affordable housing near campus ...

Sheetz opens new shop
Daily Reflector - 22 Feb 2007
... GREENVILLE, NC - "It's such a wonderful thing to walk into a business like this and still get the feeling that it's family-owned," Ward said. "That doesn't happen very much." ...

Travis Sheetz said the area's employment base has helped encourage expansion.

"Many areas that we come to with low unemployment, it's tough to get staff," he said. "This has been a real good market for us. We like to stay in more of the suburban areas. We've always been successful there. We've also always had a lot of success in college towns. This really fits the profile for what we're looking for." ...

City tells BC to revise its plan
New dorms opposed on Brighton land
Globe - 22 Feb 2007
... BOSTON, MA - City officials are urging Boston College to find alternatives to its controversial plan to build dormitories on the property formerly owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, putting the city squarely in opposition to a pivotal piece of the school's long-term vision ...

Neighbors: Partying Still A Problem
Courant - 22 Feb 2008
... NEW PRITAIN, CT - Partying by students from neighboring Central Connecticut State University was making life in the usually tranquil neighborhood hellish, they said.

The furor led to the formation of a town and gown committee made up of residents, students, campus and city officials and absentee landlords. The group has met periodically since and implemented a number of initiatives intended to stem the problem ...

Full scholarships for future ESL teachers
Dos Mundos - 21 Feb 2008
ImageAs many others nationwide, area schools are educating an ever-growing population of children from other countries. And some Kansas educators are so committed to keeping qualified teachers in those classrooms that they’re willing to pay for it.
Two Kansas institutions of higher learning are offering full scholarships to 20 future teachers in exchange for a commitment to teach for two years in the Kansas City, Kansas School District after graduation.

The aim of the initiative is to support financially needy bilingual students interested in pursuing a degree in education while providing some of tomorrow’s bilingual classroom English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) teachers ...

Not Always a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Hoya - 21 Feb 2008
... GEORGETOWN, DC - There’s no doubt about it — Georgetown is a nice place to live. The university is surrounded by charming multimillion-dollar homes, trendy shops and countless restaurants. According to the Princeton Review, Georgetown is the 13th-best college town in the country. But, particularly in the last year, news highlighting strained town-gown relations appeared ubiquitous. The precarious relationship between the two groups is conciliatory at times, strained at others. But if good fences make good neighbors, then just how damaged is the relationship between townies and Hoyas?

Minn. landlord links learning to leases
USA Today - 21 Feb 2008
... ST. CLOUD, MN. — Starting June 1, anyone signing a lease to live in the Delta Zeta sorority house here also will be making a commitment to what appears to be a national first.

Patrick Mastey, who owns the property, is adding a provision to his leases requiring college-student tenants to take St. Cloud State University's "UChoose" alcohol education and awareness program ...

Town groans as student housing grows
Western Mail - 21 Feb 2008
... TREFOREST, UK - IT WAS once a sleepy little village wedged between Cardiff and the Valleys.

But whereas most of the residents of Treforest, on the outskirts of Pontypridd, would once have been employed in Wales’ heavy industries, it is now dominated by another group – students.

It is estimated that 1,000 of the town’s 1,500 houses are now rented out to multiple occupants, with the vast majority housing young people studying at the neighbouring University of Glamorgan ...

City residents pan F&M proposal for off-campus housing
Planning commission hears nearly three hours of comments, then tables zoning request until March 5 meeting.
New Era - 21 Feb 2008
... LANCASTER, PA - Franklin & Marshall College officials on Wednesday promised a bright future for their neighbors in northwest Lancaster City.

The college, working with real estate developer Kevin Silverang, wants to renovate existing off-campus student apartments and control student behavior for what it says is the benefit of all.

But the 125 residents who attended the city Planning Commission meeting focused on the present and the past ...

BlueStone Arranges $17M for Student Housing
The Registry - 21 Feb 2008
... BOWLING GREEN, KY - BlueStone Real Estate Capital, a Philadelphia-based investment back, has provided a $17 million non-recourse, first mortgage loan for the Registry at Western Kentucky University. The property is a 145-unit, 558-bed student housing building across from the college.

Though construction started on the building in 2006, work on final items was just recently completed, says Tim Bradley, senior associate at BlueStone. He tells GlobeSt.com that the developer had some issues with cost overruns, and one of the investors, a private individual based in Orlando, stepped up and took over making sure the building was completed ...

Consultants Gather Input For a New C-Town Vision
Cornell Daily Sun - 20 Feb 2008
... ITHACA, NY - Residents of Collegetown may be glad to know that a facelift for the neighborhood is in the works. Four consultants from Goody Clancy Architects have spent an intensive two days meeting with students, permanent residents of Collegetown, merchants, property owners, Cornell administrators, trustees and the City of Ithaca planning officials. Their visit — the initial phase of a process that will continue through October — was arranged to gather the community's ideas for the neighborhood.

The consultants were brought in as part of a joint effort between the University and the City of Ithaca, as each provided $75,000 towards creating a master plan for Collegetown. A moratorium on building in the neighborhood was put into effect by the City last November in order to prepare for the consultants’ visit ...

Community leaders plan Ann Arbor visit
Daily Tar Heel - 20 Feb 2008
... CHAPEL HILL, NC - The Community Leadership Council announced dates to visit Ann Arbor, Mich., on Tuesday.

The trip, part of the CLC's Inter-City Visit initiative, is meant to compare Chapel Hill and Carrboro to another college town.

About 100 people will visit Ann Arbor, where the University of Michigan is located, Sept. 14-16 to examine social services and homelessness in the town, as well as other common issues college towns face ...

Fort Collins gears up to phase in new logo
Coloradoan - 20 Feb 2008
... FORT COLLINS, CO - Survey results showed while Fort Collins was seen as beautiful, friendly and charming, it was also seen strictly as a college town with an anti-business and anti-growth image.

The new ads, many featuring residents participating in outdoor activities with lines such as, "Maybe the best place to start a new business is where people have no shortage of initiative," are a way to expand the city's image ...

Facility plans cause polarized opinions
Red & Balck - 20 Feb 2008
... ATHENS, GA - When it comes to the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, there isn't much middle ground - those who back the lab see it as an economic savior and academic dream, and those who are against it see an environmentally evil eyesore ...

"The middle of a college town is not a good place to be doing this," Kathy Prescott, co-founder of FAQ, said ...

38 Duke Lacrosse Players to Announce Lawsuit Against Duke University, Town of Durham
StreetInsider - 20 Feb 2008
... DURHAM, NC - On Thursday, February 21, 38 Duke lacrosse players and their parents will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to announce the filing of a lawsuit against Duke University and a number of other entities and individuals ...

Housing the YouTube Generation
The 21st Century Project asked for ideas for those who may spend their lives online and connected—but who live in hugely out-moded environments
Business Week - 20 Feb 2008
... USA - College students socialize, shop, and learn in ways unimaginable less than a generation ago. Although they are increasingly connected via social networking Web sites such as Facebook.com, many students live in residence halls that predate the personal computer. The Association of College & University Housing Officers–International (ACUHO-I) held the second stage of its "21st Century Project" ideas competition this month, asking designers to envision housing that satisfies the needs not of today's students but those 25 years in the future. A team of young interns and architects, fittingly, bested four other finalists—and took home $25,000—with a scheme called "net+work+camp+us." ...

Expansion plans call for eliminating annexation
New colleges would help remedy current space crunch in residence halls
Yale Daily News - 20 Feb 2008
... NEW HAVEN, CT - Several years from now, hundreds of Yale students will likely have two new residential colleges to call home. But scores more from existing colleges will enjoy new surroundings — those of their own colleges, which should no longer have to annex upperclassmen in Old Campus dormitories due to overcrowding ...

Wisconsin College Offers Free Bicycles to New Students Who Shun Cars
TwinCities.com - 19 Feb 2008
... RIPON, WI - Just say no to cars - and get a free bicycle for better health and cleaner air.

That's what tiny Ripon College is offering new students next fall in what it says is a first-of-a-kind program that keeps the college from having to build more parking lots.

If freshmen sign a pledge promising not to bring a car to campus for the full year, the college will give them a Trek 820 mountain bike, a helmet and a lock--a $400 value ...

Princeton creating 'arts district' as part of campus plan
Star-Ledger - 19 Feb 2008
... PRINCETON, NJ - Princeton University has announced plans to create an "arts and transit" neighborhood that will act as a bridge between the university and the surrounding community.

As part of its comprehensive campus plan unveiled this week, the Ivy League school wants to transform the western edge of its campus by adding a variety of arts venues and retail outlets, a new gateway, a public arts plaza, a transit plaza, road reconfigurations and several other transportation improvements.

The concept, Princeton said, marks a new threshold in town-gown relations ...

WFU development plan debated
Some business owners are excited; others remain skeptical
Journal - 18 Feb 2008
... WAKE FOREST, NC - Wake Forest announced that it plans to redevelop 67 acres along the street that leads to BB&T Field, Ernie Shore Field and Joel Coliseum. University officials have said that the project would have the feel of a village, with stores, offices, residences and restaurants. The university said it is investing more than $25 million in the project, but it has not yet selected a developer or gotten far with design or details ...

Blake Gumprecht, a geography professor at the University of New Hampshire, has studied college towns and has visited Winston-Salem ...

The best developments grow over time, he said, so he’s not convinced that using master plans to create villages or developments close to campus can always work. Too often, he said, such developments end up resembling suburbia.

“I think they’ll be inherently more contrived,” he said ...

College Paper Vows to Fight a Takeover by Gannett
NY Times - 18 Feb 2008
... FORT COLLINS, CO - On the first day of classes in January, Mr. McSwane learned that the university president was meeting with representatives from the local daily, The Fort Collins Coloradoan, which is owned by Gannett, to discuss a potential “partnership” with the student newspaper.

The Collegian, now worried about its future as an independent student newspaper, is planning to fight any possible takeover by a media company. And Gannett and The Coloradoan have become targets for harsh criticism from college newsrooms and journalism departments across the country, who portray Gannett as a “dark lord” that wants to rein in student press freedom ...

Man reports 1,531 percent property tax hike
Daily Mail - 18 Feb 2008
... CHARLESTON, WV - A property owner has filed a complaint against the Monongalia County assessor's office, claiming his property taxes increased from $285.90 to $4,663.44 after he refused to sell his property to Chief Deputy Assessor Bill Perry.

Morgantown property owner Jim Jones says he's being retaliated against. The 1,531 percent increase is the subject of his complaint with the West Virginia Ethics Commission ...

Jones and a partner purchased commercial property along University Avenue in 2006, after learning that it's next to a site that was to be developed into a large student housing building ...

Corvallis lands on list of smartest cities in America
Oregonian - 18 Feb 2008
... COEVALLIS, OR - We love lists around here. In case you missed it, last week was a big one, list-wise, for the Rose City.

There was the Popular Science list of the greenest cities in America. Portland companies, too, got a little love from Outside Magazine for their green-ness.

And now it's Corvallis' turn for the spotlight. Forbes Mag has named the Oregon college town one of the smartest in America. The town ranked number 5 in the country. The listmakers looked at the number of residents with college degrees ...

Ashland will turn 150 this year
Events will honor town's past, sense of community
Times Dispatch - 18 Feb 2008
... ASHLAND, VA - As the town of Ashland turns 150 this year, residents will celebrate how much has not changed since the turn of the last century.

Victorian homes and main street businesses frame railroad tracks that run through the 7-square-mile college town. It is home to more than 7,000 people, many of whom turn out in force for the town's Christmas and Fourth of July parades and biennial musical variety show ...

Proposed Middlebury bridge comes into focus
Independent - 18 Feb 2008
... MIDDLEBURY, VT — Middlebury citizens last Wednesday got a chance to see the first conceptual designs of a proposed Cross Street bridge that town officials hope will be in place before winter of 2010 ...

selectmen are hoping residents become intimately familiar with the plans before they cast ballots on Town Meeting Day on a $16 million plan to build the bridge as a link between Main Street and Court Street over the Otter Creek via Cross Street. The project — which would include a roundabout intersection at Main and Cross streets — would receive $9 million in funding from Middlebury College. Town officials would like to bankroll the remaining $7 million in costs ...

F&M student housing district plan raises fears
New Era - 18 Feb 2008
... LANCASTER, PA - Critics say it's a step backward to the bad old days.

Advocates say it's a move forward to new, better days.

A proposed student housing district in the city's northwest neighborhood has alarmed some residents, who worry that rowdy behavior that once plagued the area will return and parking shortages will worsen.

But supporters of the zoning change requested by Franklin & Marshall College and a developer working with the college say the measure will improve conditions by establishing better controls ...

Near campus, a dirty war over garbage
As city cracks down on lawn trash, some say Ann Arborites use policy to target students
(N.B.The Ann Arbor legislation targets all residents - imagining it focuses on students is sloppy thinking)

Michigan Daily - 18 Feb 2008
... ANN ARBOR, MI - Dan Kovel, an LSA senior who lives on East University Avenue, was tired of getting trash violations from the city.

Kovel and his housemates, who routinely hosted tailgates outside their house before football games last season, decided it wasn't worth it to party outside the house before the Ohio State game. They worried that doing it would draw another fine ...

The Giant Among Us
UCSB Launches the 2025 Long Term Development Plan
Independent - 18 Feb 2007
... SANTA BARBARA, CA - UCSB is the economic engine that has driven economic growth in Goleta since it first moved to the old Marine air base in 1954. If the campus had stayed in Santa Barbara or found a home in Carpinteria instead, the history of Goleta and the South Coast would have been very different. A prestigious university promotes growth not only by its inherent needs, but also by attracting high-tech research industries that flourish in its proximity. It brings great benefits to the community economically, intellectually, and artistically.

But there are costs as well. While its main purpose is academic excellence, as it has grown, the university has become a land use developer, both by design and by creating opportunities for private developers. This has resulted in major impacts, both good and bad, on the surrounding communities. Traffic, housing, and the environment have all been affected ...

Rental Properties: 10 Ways To Increase Income
Best Syndication - 18 Feb 2008
... USA - Rent by the room. A four-bedroom house might make more money if you include all the utilities and rent by the bedroom. This has made a lot of fortunes for investors in college towns. It does mean a lot of management, however ...

Universities serve as economic catalysts
Virginia Tech and Radford University may be able to help soften the blow of a recession.
Times - 17 Feb 2008
... NEW RIVER VALLEY, VA - Insulated, but not immune.

That's the consensus of business leaders and officials about the economies of the New River Valley's largest college towns amid a national recession.

While Virginia Tech and Radford University are susceptible to state budget shortfalls, neither institution is likely to close because of financial problems -- unlike private companies whose cutbacks or closures can devastate local economies ...

University Circle has culture and jobs; now it wants residents
Plain Dealer - 17 Feb 2008
... CLEVELAND, OH - Aiming to leverage the unprecedented growth, foundations have joined the institutions, the city and neighborhood leaders to ply million-dollar strategies to make University Circle a better place.

With up to 10,000 new jobs expected there in the next decade, civic leaders want to foster residential development in the circle, boost neighborhoods from Glenville to Fairfax and smooth the street and transit kinks that make the 10-minute walk from Wade Lagoon a risky proposition.

The growth presents an unprecedented opportunity to fix University Circle's flaws ...

N.H. was the right location for German filmmaker
Telegraph - 17 Feb 2008
... HANOVER, NH - – The theme of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival was "Film Takes Place," and one of those places was New Hampshire.

"Love Comes Lately," a dramatic feature by German filmmaker Jan Schutte shown at the festival last month, was partially shot in Claremont, Meriden and Hanover ...

Mardi gratis
Yale Herald - 17 Feb 2008
... NEW HAVEN, CT - Not sure what your plans are this summer? Ditch the western business attire and head down to the home of Mardi Gras and the birthplace of jazz. Through the new “Bulldogs in the Big Easy” program, select Elis will help promote the city’s development by interning with organizations from Global Green to New Schools for New Orleans. Though interns will work without pay and are expected spend about $1,500 for food, transportation, and other personal costs, the University and its Big Easy alumni will cover student housing—a cost that UCS Director Phillip Jones believes will exceed $200,000. The city is still stitching up the scars left by Hurricane Katrina, so let Yale’s piggy bank help you help the Big Easy ...

New look for New Paltz: Plan outlines significant changes to SUNY campus
Daily Freeman - 17 Feb 2008
... NEW PALTZ, NY - SUNY New Paltz has unveiled an ambitious blueprint for the campus that would significantly alter the academic and physical landscape for the next generation of students and require tens of millions of dollars in state aid to carry the plan through ...

DESPITE keeping enrollment numbers down, the college still has a need for more residential housing. That is something the landscape blueprint does not account for, but college officials are not worried.

The SUNY New Paltz Foundation, a non-profit group affiliated with the college, entered into a lease agreement in December with the Moriello family that will provide the college with an additional 42 acres to be used for housing for undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty members. The Moriello property is on state Route 32, opposite the southern end of the campus.

Task force seeking limits on BC project
Globe - 17 Feb 2008
... BOSTON, MA - City officials should ask Boston College to significantly rein in its expansion, according to the neighborhood task force advising the Boston Redevelopment Authority.

In a letter commenting on the university's institutional master plan, the BC Task Force stressed student housing, noting the community's wish for all undergraduates to be housed on campus by 2018 while keeping the former archdiocese property north of Commonwealth Avenue free of such housing ...

Park area may get student apartments
News - 17 Feb 2008
... TUSCALOOSA, AL - The Tuscaloosa Planning and Zoning Commission will consider the fate Monday of one of Tuscaloosa’s last large blocks of undeveloped property.

The Dovetail Cos., a Georgia developer, wants to put a large apartment development on property adjacent to Snow Hinton Park that is now the residence of businessman Jimmy Hinton. The Woodlands of Tuscaloosa would have about 350 units housing 1,200 to 1,400 residents. A small portion of the property on Hargrove Road would be reserved for retail development ...

 

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