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August 12, 2008, 02:58 PM ET
Shop Talk: Amenities in Buffalo, Competition in Baltimore, and a Siege in Philadelphia
Amenities in Buffalo: Later this month some 400 students from Buffalo-area colleges will move into a complex called Collegiate Village that is not affiliated with any one higher-education institution, according to Buffalo Business First. The complex, developed by Chason Affinity, will offer a range of layouts and rents—one-bedroom apartments will go for $823 a month, while apartments with two double bedrooms and two baths will cost each resident $515 a month. The complex offers a range of amenities, including a pool, an indoor basketball court, a gym, a clubhouse, a movie theater, and “high-intensity stand-up tanning.”
Competition in Baltimore: High-profile architecture firms are all but tripping over each other to enter an international competition to design a “signature” $107-million law-school building for the University of Baltimore, according to The Baltimore Sun. The project, for a prominent site at the corner of Charles Street and Mount Royal Avenue, has attracted interest from Behnisch Architekten, Cooper Robertson & Partners, David Chipperfield Architects, Diamond + Schmitt Architects, Dominique Perrault Architecture, Foster + Partners, FXFOWLE, Moshe Safdie and Associates, Pelli Clarke Pelli, RMJM Hillier, RTKL Associates, and SmithGroup. Peter Angelos, the owner of the Baltimore Orioles baseball franchise, has contributed $5-million to the undertaking.
Siege Mentality: Some residents of Philadelphia’s Yorktown neighborhood feel that they are “under siege” because investors are buying up houses in the area and renting them to Temple University students, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. Although a city ordinance prohibits more than three unrelated people from occupying the same household in the neighborhood, residents say that as many as eight or even 10 students live in some of the rented houses, and have instructions from their landlords to tell city inspectors that they are cousins. The residents say that they’ve had no trouble with most of the students, but that some have loud parties, leave the lids off their trash cans, or let their dogs poop in their front yards.
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