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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Years ago, when they had a chance, UVA decided it didn’t want to grow its main campus. Now you have this cutesy locked campus that can hardly serve most of the top students in the state. It’s a shame that way too many qualified IS students aren’t able to attend, but you really what you sow. Not very forward thinking.  [/quote]

UVA was founded in 1819, and, like many universities and college founded long ago, is landlocked by the city, roads and rail but you don’t complain about Yale or Harvard being built up around the campuses do you? And exactly what do you mean with the imprecise “years ago when they had the chance …?” I’d love to know exactly what you mean. And before you post again read up on the UVA Foundation whose job it is to buy up real estate whenever and wherever it can. But you would rather come on here and complain from a position of ignorance because you or a loved one didn’t get in, right?  FWIW the UVA Foundation purchased 44 properties last year near the campus - for which locals criticize it! So imho it’s very “forward looking” and doing much better than my alma mater is.  Also, the reason that UVA is a relatively small public is precisely why the legislature is pumping money into construction and develop at GMU, CNU snd the other 30+ Virginia campuses. Virginians are blessed with public choices on a part only with California -which is a much younger state , has much more land and didn’t start pumping money into its three level public system until the late 50s and 60s, so, yes, UCLA and Berkeley are large. Because they had room to grow with cheap land[/quote]

+1. Read here about real estate acquisitions by the UVA Foundation. Uvafoundation.org. It recently bought the 80 room burnt out Econolodge at the corner of Emmet and Main in the heart of campus under a pseudonym because the owner kept giving UVA a preposterous price. That’s not “forward thinking” enough for  you?[/quote]

Dude, what are they gonna build there?  Upperclass housing?  Cross-disciplinary think-tank a la CAS Princeton?   [/quote]

The old Econo lodge property will be the new Data Science center, a hotel and a conference center [/quote]

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