Article about TXST and San Marcos. Interesting read. Excepting, I suppose, GSU, do you think this has, is or will happen to your U/town?

The College that Ate a Town

Happening over in Statesboro. Most definitely.

Jonesboro is fairly similar, though our biggest advantage is that we have a ton of space to grow, and a good percentage of our students live on campus.

Boone is facing similar issues as well. The problem is that we don't have a ton of space to grow. The current flavor of the month, The Standard, has more than 560 beds and 26,600 square feet of retail/commercial space in a 5-story complex on 321 in the heart of town. In the past week the developers announced that they would not be open in time for the fall semester and, as a result, will be putting students up in hotels around town until the expected completion in October.

Even in a high growth state like Texas, an enrollment expansion of 28,000 students in 20 years is ridiculous.

I really wish writers and new anchors of media outlets would quit with the lazy and deceitful journalism. It's very clear to me he's acting on behalf of someone who opposes the University and one of the real estate developers. A lot of information he spun was bogus. The real story is you have a predominantly poor Hispanic community that has attracted nothing more than distribution warehouses over the years and scared away corporations from building in the area. For the longest time you've had corrupt city officials getting voted in by the locals to spurn the University for years (I think around 2002-2003 we finally had some pro-university representation make it on the council) San Marcos has for the longest time had a ****** culture full of citizens that commute out of town for work then leach off the resources of the University; it's student population. A lot of the riff raff is getting pushed out, the city is cleaner, and I couldn't be more happy.

City Roads and Infrastructure have improved tremendously
Restaurant Industry has skyrocketed
Hospitality Industry has skyrocketed
Corporations have started moving in
SMISD (School District) has improved
Students have begun to graduate and stay
Rivers are now cleaner than ever due to more student organizations taking part in daily cleanups
Tourism has jumped 10 fold
Run down flea bag apartment units have been flipped into presentable and nicer facilities
Run down boarded up buildings have been bought and flipped into money makers for the city
Property Values have increased


I could keep going.....Long story short from 2005 to 2016 the growth has done nothing more than improve the city.

(07-26-2016 01:04 PM)CatMom Wrote:  Article about TXST and San Marcos. Interesting read. Excepting, I suppose, GSU, do you think this has, is or will happen to your U/town?

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Excepting GSU?

We ate downtown quite a while ago. Was tasty.

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(07-27-2016 06:01 AM)panama Wrote:  

(07-26-2016 01:04 PM)CatMom Wrote:  Article about TXST and San Marcos. Interesting read. Excepting, I suppose, GSU, do you think this has, is or will happen to your U/town?

The College that Ate a Town

Excepting GSU?

We ate downtown quite a while ago. Was tasty.

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Trent Miles said that Ga State owns 75% of downtown in an interview on media day. Is that factual? or is that including the turner field project?

There is no better example of a university swallowing a town than Boone, NC.

(07-27-2016 08:24 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  

(07-27-2016 06:01 AM)panama Wrote:  

(07-26-2016 01:04 PM)CatMom Wrote:  Article about TXST and San Marcos. Interesting read. Excepting, I suppose, GSU, do you think this has, is or will happen to your U/town?

The College that Ate a Town

Excepting GSU?

We ate downtown quite a while ago. Was tasty.

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Trent Miles said that Ga State owns 75% of downtown in an interview on media day. Is that factual? or is that including the turner field project?

Dont know he percentage but the Atlanta Business Chronicle did say a couple years ago that GSU real estate holdings downtown total $7B. That was before the other develpment around campus and before the Ted.

This sounds like one of the many fights between App and Boone. The school is the life blood of the town, but many of the locals fight the school on everything. The locals have some reasonable concerns, but many times they are trying to hold back time and want to keep Boone from growing at all.

What kind of morons allow development in flood plains?



Any new development of housing, etc in flood plains should automatically be excluded from any government flood insurance, disaster relief, etc.

(07-27-2016 06:01 AM)panama Wrote:  

(07-26-2016 01:04 PM)CatMom Wrote:  Article about TXST and San Marcos. Interesting read. Excepting, I suppose, GSU, do you think this has, is or will happen to your U/town?

The College that Ate a Town

Excepting GSU?

We ate downtown quite a while ago. Was tasty.

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However, Atlanta was there and thriving on its own before GSU took hold of a particular section of the city. It is not the entire life blood of Atlanta. Like CajunCat stated; if TXST wasn't in San Marcos it would basically be just another struggling small town, USA blip on a map. You can't say that about Atlanta.

Downtown > San Marcos

Sorry


Downtown Atlanta would be a husk if not for GSU.

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(07-27-2016 12:44 PM)panama Wrote:  Downtown > San Marcos

Sorry


Downtown Atlanta would be a husk if not for GSU.

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Nope...it would leave a crater for sure, but there is far too much going on and too much money flow in downtown Atlanta for the city to just close shop if y'all up and vanished. The other 6 million people in the metro area would fill it in before too long. San Marcos would disappear. Statesboro would go back to being a series of intricate farms.

(07-27-2016 12:29 PM)JTApps1 Wrote:  This sounds like one of the many fights between App and Boone. The school is the life blood of the town, but many of the locals fight the school on everything. The locals have some reasonable concerns, but many times they are trying to hold back time and want to keep Boone from growing at all.

The same thing is happening in Statesboro. The city keeps talking about wanting to revamp the Downtown area to add businesses that would attract more student downtown but they keep passing ordinances to prohibit alcohol sales and make it impossible for new bars and restaurants to open. They are just shooting themselves down.

(07-27-2016 01:07 PM)EagleNationRising Wrote:  

(07-27-2016 12:44 PM)panama Wrote:  Downtown > San Marcos

Sorry


Downtown Atlanta would be a husk if not for GSU.

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Nope...it would leave a crater for sure, but there is far too much going on and too much money flow in downtown Atlanta for the city to just close shop if y'all up and vanished. The other 6 million people in the metro area would fill it in before too long. San Marcos would disappear. Statesboro would go back to being a series of intricate farms.

Read what I said. Downtown would be a husk. Not Atlanta.

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(07-27-2016 01:11 PM)panama Wrote:  

(07-27-2016 01:07 PM)EagleNationRising Wrote:  

(07-27-2016 12:44 PM)panama Wrote:  Downtown > San Marcos

Sorry


Downtown Atlanta would be a husk if not for GSU.

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Nope...it would leave a crater for sure, but there is far too much going on and too much money flow in downtown Atlanta for the city to just close shop if y'all up and vanished. The other 6 million people in the metro area would fill it in before too long. San Marcos would disappear. Statesboro would go back to being a series of intricate farms.

Read what I said. Downtown would be a husk. Not Atlanta.

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Is there nothing GSU can't do? the saviors of ATL
How do they keep slumming with the rest of us.

(07-27-2016 01:30 PM)trueeagle98 Wrote:  

(07-27-2016 01:11 PM)panama Wrote:  

(07-27-2016 01:07 PM)EagleNationRising Wrote:  

(07-27-2016 12:44 PM)panama Wrote:  Downtown > San Marcos

Sorry


Downtown Atlanta would be a husk if not for GSU.

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Nope...it would leave a crater for sure, but there is far too much going on and too much money flow in downtown Atlanta for the city to just close shop if y'all up and vanished. The other 6 million people in the metro area would fill it in before too long. San Marcos would disappear. Statesboro would go back to being a series of intricate farms.

Read what I said. Downtown would be a husk. Not Atlanta.

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Is there nothing GSU can't do? the saviors of ATL
How do they keep slumming with the rest of us.

Slumming ain't easy Playa...

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(07-27-2016 12:29 PM)JTApps1 Wrote:  This sounds like one of the many fights between App and Boone. The school is the life blood of the town, but many of the locals fight the school on everything. The locals have some reasonable concerns, but many times they are trying to hold back time and want to keep Boone from growing at all.

Have heard Athens, GA residents have the same attitude. Pretty normal.

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