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UConn to expand regional campus in Hartford with major downtown lease.

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The space — 50,000 square feet that faces Trumbull Street and is partly over the atrium entrance to the XL Center arena — will be used for clinical labs, an innovation center, health research linked to the UConn Health center and, potentially, sports medicine.

They should be building this on campus. If it's on campus it would count towards our research for a potential AAU application.
 

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The space — 50,000 square feet that faces Trumbull Street and is partly over the atrium entrance to the XL Center arena — will be used for clinical labs, an innovation center, health research linked to the UConn Health center and, potentially, sports medicine.

They should be building this on campus. If it's on campus it would count towards our research for a potential AAU application.
100% they should be building this in Storrs. I am hoping there will be another announcement in the near future regarding enhanced research facilities coming to main campus or else this is just another stupid thing the school is doing that will result in a self-inflicted wound
 
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-> University leaders are also strongly considering the addition of student dormitory space downtown. The effort would likely include a partnership with a private developer who would convert an empty or underutilized office building into student housing.

The overall expansion, school leaders said, aims to create new work and internship opportunities for students, while also opening up potential partnerships with Hartford businesses, nonprofits and arts programs.

Dormitory space would also satisfy students’ long-running desires for a more traditional college experience in the city, said Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, dean and chief academic officer of UConn’s Hartford campus. <-

-> “We are looking at establishing a residence hall for undergraduate students, and also possibly graduate students in downtown Hartford,” UConn Provost Anne D’Alleva recently told the Hartford Business Journal. “Students at the Hartford campus have for some time shared that they would like to have a housing option as part of their college experience.”

UConn is considering a pilot program in which it would lease downtown apartments from a private landlord and make the units available for students.

It’s a model the school already employs at its campus in Stamford, where UConn leases three residential buildings that house about 500 students who live in suite-style apartments.<-
 
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I think this is the former St Joes School of Pharmacy space. Iif so, ’ve seen it and it was already built out with high quality teaching/learning/lab space.
You are right. My wife was a professor of pharmacy at St. Joe's and worked in the XL. It really is gorgeous clinical and academic space. St. Joe's new president moved the entire program back on campus in WH.
 

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I love the shell game. CRDA charges us rent, then gives the money back in support.
I also like an entranceway right next to Capitol Spirits. Very convenient.

(For what it's worth I have significant hesitancy in doing anything with the CDRA. Their history of failure in everything they undertake is unprecedented. Statistically, by now you figure they would be able to have made money at something. Oh well, hope springs eternal I guess.

They also have a history of screwing us with our XL and Rentschler Rents. I wouldn't get in bed with them again, or if I did I would be extraordinarily careful about the terms.)
 
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Avery Point should have student housing! I think the school is undervalued because it is marine science subjects are there. I'd love to see AP create a Naval Architecture department and with the CMTA (Connecticut Marine Trade Association) bring marine jobs to Southeastern CT. Maybe even team up with Mystic Seaport...
 

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I suspect that UConn has a plan to elevate the branch campuses into Universities in their own right. The addition of on campus housing would seem to be a critical step in increasing their bottom line.
 

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