20 West Adams Street

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Dorms for 60 students?

Sigh.

We need UNF to build a big-azz dorm downtown -- they've been very conservative with the growth of their university, especially when you compare that to USF, UCF, FAU and FIU. That's not a criticism; it has led to a distinctive campus and university. But it's time for some creative, urban thinking to complement what they've done on campus.

FSCJ can never supply a vital boost of young students for downtown. They just can't.

UNF can. Do a joint project with UF; offer housing to their Pharmacy and Health Science Center students. Whatever, however; we need UNF downtown.

http://jacksonville.com/opinion/ron-littlepage/2014-10-03/story/ron-littlepage-downtown-campus-would-benefit-unf-and-city

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/education/os-ucf-downtown-campus-update-20150924-story.html

The building would have classrooms for nearly 4,000 UCF students and about 350 Valencia students studying fields such as social work, health information technology, health sciences and legal studies.

UCF also seeks to build a 300-bed dormitory and a 600-space parking garage, using bonds to build the structures and paying them off with parking fees and housing revenue.

FSCJ 60 beds vs UCF 300 beds? Come on; UNF can do that. There's no way in hell UNF can't do that.

Better 60 beds than 0 beds.......yes? Keep working on enticing and prodding UNF to do the same but on a much larger scale; on the other hand, don't turn this down. Every little bit helps.

[whyisjohngalt]

This is a reasonable investment for the city and a great location for housing.