[Alumni-chat] Gateway Consulting Group

[Christopher Adams]

Plenty of places have low crime, good schools and less traffic, and there 
are plenty of them in the Dayton area.  You make a difference by having 
something no one else does, like a small town college with its cultural 
atmosphere.  I doubt the economic climate for residential development is 
sufficient in southern ohio to make this work with just development.  Like 
it or not, the university needs a college in place in order to develop the 
land.  It just doesn't necessarily need this college
Chris Adams '87
At 01:58 PM 6/25/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>--- Christopher Adams
><Christopher.Adams at jefferson.edu> wrote:
>My conclusion
> > is that the university will endeavor to reopen the
> > college, because without
> > the college, development of the land will be very
> > difficult (what else will
> > bring residents to a small southern Ohio village
> > that is in an economic
> > crisis).
>
>Why do people want to live in Yellow Springs? Well,
>there are reasons beyond the College: low crime (read:
>not very many poor black people); good schools; less
>traffic & more small-town feeling that the other good
>suburbs of Dayton. If the Y.S. village govt. was
>friendlier to development, the College or the
>University or whoever could easily sell the land to
>developers. And though the Miami valley might not be
>the ecenomic dynamo of yester-year, you will still
>find plenty of lawyers, doctors, engineers, college
>professors, architects, etc. who might prefer Yellow
>Springs to Springboro.
>
>As far as University intentions towards a renewed
>College, I don't think they really need or want it.
>Think something along the lines of a conference center
>as the anchor of the urban village rather than a
>revamped College (btw, the place in florida everyone
>mentions, Seaside, was developed by Robert S. Davis
>'65).
>
>Patrick
>
>
>
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