Re: Grand & Finn Apartments - (2124 Grand Avenue)
Posted: July 7th, 2013, 12:20 am
The area around St. Thomas has become NIMBY central. The neighborhood literally opposes every possible student housing idea presented. Students can't live off campus in single family housing because of sex, drugs, and rock & roll. Developers can't build new mixed use buildings or apartments off campus either because it "doesn't fit the area" along with sex, drugs, and rock & roll in large scale. Which leaves us with students having to live on campus.
But looking at campus, it's pretty much full with buildings already and St. Thomas can't grow and expand because that would just be sacrilege and they are somehow terrible neighbors (how a university building can be a bad neighbor is beyond me). That means that the only option left is to build higher on campus, and we can't have that either because that would cast a shadow on my backyard between 10:56 and 11:02 AM for 2 1/2 weeks a year.
It's like the people who live around St. Thomas, and most university's for that matter, never stopped to think that students need a place to live when they bought their house. The university didn't spring up overnight, it was there when you moved in and it will be their when you move out. They don't want to students to live in the area but will then complain about commuter students parking on streets along with students not spending time on campus and spending money at local businesses.
Also that building is terribly ugly and the developer should be shamed publicly for how ugly it is.
But looking at campus, it's pretty much full with buildings already and St. Thomas can't grow and expand because that would just be sacrilege and they are somehow terrible neighbors (how a university building can be a bad neighbor is beyond me). That means that the only option left is to build higher on campus, and we can't have that either because that would cast a shadow on my backyard between 10:56 and 11:02 AM for 2 1/2 weeks a year.
It's like the people who live around St. Thomas, and most university's for that matter, never stopped to think that students need a place to live when they bought their house. The university didn't spring up overnight, it was there when you moved in and it will be their when you move out. They don't want to students to live in the area but will then complain about commuter students parking on streets along with students not spending time on campus and spending money at local businesses.
Also that building is terribly ugly and the developer should be shamed publicly for how ugly it is.