Developers plan C. Village overhaul
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This News-Letter article reports on the proposed Charles Village redevelopment project presented at a Student Council meeting.
- The News-Letter reported that the project was formally presented at the meeting, with construction planned for January 2004 and a bookstore and housing expected by the 2005-6 academic year.
- The paper reported that the University hired Struever Bros. to rebuild the northwest block of St. Paul and 33rd Streets with a Barnes & Noble bookstore, dining facilities and student housing.
- The reporter writes that Struever Bros. had acquired many row houses and hoped to buy and demolish the Pike and Alpha Delta Phi fraternity properties, according to development director Linda Lo Cascio.
- The article says the planned housing would include 615 beds for sophomores first, with 300 remaining beds available to juniors and seniors, and quotes Paula Burger saying, “It [the development project] will make a major difference in undergraduate life.”
- The News-Letter reported that the project still needed Finance Committee approval in October and that a planned Charles Street bridge or tunnel had been replaced by a brick pedestrian path.