Re: HORIZON by Chance Partners
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mahohmei
Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:02
Speaking as a former resident of a Colony Club 2-bedroom with roommate as a junior and senior, Jefferson Arms as a senior, and Villa Conradi as a grad student, I will say, hands-down, that when I was an unmarried student, I preferred living alone in an efficiency or 1-bedroom apartment.All the way through my career at FSU, I never saw the allure to living in a multi-bedroom apartment with roommates.It seems like the number of efficiency and 1-bedroom apartments near campus has not keep pace with the relative explosion of multi-bedroom apartments. (I know that most of the mega-apartment complexes, like Grandmarc, Campus Circle, etc. have efficiency and/or 1-bedrooms, but you don't see any efficiency-only or 1-bedroom-only buildings anymore like Jefferson Arms, College Plaza, A University View, etc.)As an added bonus, efficiency-only and 1-bedroom-only buildings tend to have a lot of seniors, grad students, and people with full-time jobs (I fit all three of these descriptions while living alone), which, from my personal experience, means less "typical student behavior", if you don't want to be around that type of thing.My big question: is there just not a whole lot of demand for efficiency and one-bedroom apartments near campus? Or do developers simply not want to build them despite demand, because they cost more per tenant?(Side note: the College Ave. corridor, especially between Macomb and MLK, would be far nicer if the sidewalks and bike lanes weren't seen as free-for-all parking. TPD seems to be wholly inactive on the issue.)
[quote="mahohmei"]
Speaking as a former resident of a Colony Club 2-bedroom with roommate as a junior and senior, Jefferson Arms as a senior, and Villa Conradi as a grad student, I will say, hands-down, that when I was an unmarried student, I preferred living alone in an efficiency or 1-bedroom apartment.All the way through my career at FSU, I never saw the allure to living in a multi-bedroom apartment with roommates.It seems like the number of efficiency and 1-bedroom apartments near campus has not keep pace with the relative explosion of multi-bedroom apartments. (I know that most of the mega-apartment complexes, like Grandmarc, Campus Circle, etc. have efficiency and/or 1-bedrooms, but you don't see any efficiency-only or 1-bedroom-only buildings anymore like Jefferson Arms, College Plaza, A University View, etc.)As an added bonus, efficiency-only and 1-bedroom-only buildings tend to have a lot of seniors, grad students, and people with full-time jobs (I fit all three of these descriptions while living alone), which, from my personal experience, means less "typical student behavior", if you don't want to be around that type of thing.My big question: is there just not a whole lot of demand for efficiency and one-bedroom apartments near campus? Or do developers simply not want to build them despite demand, because they cost more per tenant?(Side note: the College Ave. corridor, especially between Macomb and MLK, would be far nicer if the sidewalks and bike lanes weren't seen as free-for-all parking. TPD seems to be wholly inactive on the issue.)
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Re: HORIZON by Chance Partners
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td*
Monday, 06 February 2012 12:17
Yummi
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Re: Major Developments
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spc ii
Saturday, 04 February 2012 14:13
Looks like Chance Partners is planning another new development, this one outside of the Southgate Neighborhood. Horizon will be a three story development in the same general style as their Paces, on an L-shaped site on College Avenue where that old partially burnt out house was. Good to see something finally replace that thing. The project already seems to be in progress, as I saw construction equipment there last week.
http://chance-partners.com/
[quote="spc ii"]
Looks like Chance Partners is planning another new development, this one outside of the Southgate Neighborhood. Horizon will be a three story development in the same general style as their Paces, on an L-shaped site on College Avenue where that old partially burnt out house was. Good to see something finally replace that thing. The project already seems to be in progress, as I saw construction equipment there last week.
http://chance-partners.com/
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Re: Chance Partners win NAHB Gold
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downtownster
Sunday, 29 January 2012 23:49
"MidtownMan" wrote:
Something mixed use Ive been told...There is a coalition of property owners coming together on College to put a plan on paper for its future. This includes infrastructure needs, aesthetics, and cleanliness. Lots of exciting new things coming to College Avenue soon!
That's exciting news! The block betrween MLK and Macomb is pretty rough looking.
[quote="downtownster"]
[quote="MidtownMan":1788oe31]Something mixed use Ive been told...There is a coalition of property owners coming together on College to put a plan on paper for its future. This includes infrastructure needs, aesthetics, and cleanliness. Lots of exciting new things coming to College Avenue soon![/quote:1788oe31]
That's exciting news! The block betrween MLK and Macomb is pretty rough looking.
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Re: Chance Partners win NAHB Gold
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midtownman
Sunday, 29 January 2012 16:34
Something mixed use Ive been told...There is a coalition of property owners coming together on College to put a plan on paper for its future. This includes infrastructure needs, aesthetics, and cleanliness. Lots of exciting new things coming to College Avenue soon!
[quote="midtownman"]
Something mixed use Ive been told...There is a coalition of property owners coming together on College to put a plan on paper for its future. This includes infrastructure needs, aesthetics, and cleanliness. Lots of exciting new things coming to College Avenue soon!
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