Stripes have been glued.
Think bigger.
Demolish Blackham and its barns.
Demolish the Horticulture Center.
Clear the land all the way from the Dorms, to the intramural area, to the Horticulture Center area, to the corner of Johnston and Reinhardt where Blackham is now.
That is A LOT of prime land that the University is woefully misusing.
What do we put there?
State of the art student housing, enough to transform the Universirty and put an end, once and for all, to our housing problem. A Coffee house. A Gift shop. Recreational areas. The possibilities are endless.
This area would immediately become the new center of Campus life. It would bridge the gap between the athletic complex and the academic complex.
I've walked it. It takes nearly the same amount of time to walk from Blackham to Martin Hall as it does to walk from Legacy Park to Martin Hall.
This IS the answer to so many problems the University has, and for the life of me, I can't figure out why no one has thought of this in Martin Hall, or if they have, why haven't they implemented it.
I must say thats a really good idea. Blackham is past its prime and hardly serves a purpose for the university besides housing the crawfish boil for Lagniappe Day and random other minor things. Im am really interested in seeing how much the Ice Gators are going to have to do in order to make the place good enough to play at.
However, I think that any type of "new dorms" projects won't be happening in the near future since they are focusing mainly now on expanding Legacy Park.
I didn't realize there was a 'housing' problem.. with all of the apartments going up recently..ie: the one's next to drug emporium.. they must have 500 apartments in that complex.. and the new one's across from the blood center.. same...
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