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"We needed to prime the pump." Penn added another project four blocks away - including a grocery and multiplex movie theater. Outside developers have since started their own projects, leaving a mix of retail and academic buildings on almost every block. "I think they've done remarkable things," said Jeff Speck, director of design for the National Endowment for the Arts. Speck is a former planner with the Miami firm Duany Plater-Zyberk, one of the pioneers for the so-called New Urbanist movement that advocates building traditional communities by intermingling homes, offices and apartments so people can walk everywhere. The projects' success depends on how they are executed. Adam Drisin, director of FIU's architecture program, worries about concentrating retail on a campus in such a way that students never leave. Drisin likes the urban model at Penn because it reaches out into the city. But in more suburban campuses, the retail can create an artificial town and separate students from the neighborhood, he said. HP Deskjet F4140 All-in-One Printer WAL*MART At UCF, money from the dorms, shops and a pair of parking garages is subsidizing the 10,000seat basketball arena. "We're a public university, but we want to adopt some of the best practices of the private sector," said Bill Merck, vice president for administration and finance at UCF. Florida Atlantic University's board of trustees began moving in the same direction Tuesday. Trustees discussed "Innovation Village," a proposed complex of dorms and retail stores designed around a proposed football stadium at the Boca Raton campus. In a study, administrators learned many students were rejecting FAU to attend UCF, Florida State and the University of Florida - i n part because those schools offer more campus life. And FAU defines that to include a shopping district. "It is no longer enough for a college or university simply to provide students with four walls and a bed," Jill Eckardt, the school's director of housing, said in a report to FAU's board. Urban schools have a longer tradition of integrating their campuses into downtown retail environments. But even that model has changed. The University of Pennsylvania began aggressively developing the depressed West Philadelphia neighborhood around its campus a decade ago, starting with a $100 million project opened in 1998 that converted a parking lot into a hotel, sporting goods store, Barnes & Noble, Cosi coffee bar and Urban Outfitters, among other stores. "I'm always suspicious of attempts to replicate, if you will, the complexities of a city," Drisin said. "In the best sense, what a university is trying to do is expose students to ideas and places and people that they don't know about and maybe are a little bit uncomfortable with." Drisin, like others, expects the retail trend to keep growing because parents and students are demanding it. The newest "campus apartments" at UCF are more expensive, but the school had 500 more applicants than spots, according to Merck. Beyond demand, the projects are driven by economic necessity. Last week, a report issued for Florida's Board of Governors, which oversees state universities, said the state's 11 schools need $3.4 billion in construction money as they expect an additional 50,000 students within six years. The UCF project costs $250 million. UCF would not have been able to afford a $100 million basketball arena as a standalone project. |