October 24th, 2007 |
by David Daddio |
published in
Housing, Knox Box Redevelopment, Northgate Area, On Campus Development, Politics, Route 1
It has been about 6 months since the issue of student housing really exploded in College Park and anyone (ourselves included) would have had a hard time predicting what has taken place since that time. What started off with hundreds of rising seniors losing their on-campus housing in April has progressed – or regressed rather [...]
April 6th, 2007 |
by David Daddio |
published in
General College Park, Housing, Knox Box Redevelopment, Northgate Area, On Campus Development
The student housing crunch in College Park is not new by any means. It’s been going on far longer than the 9 months or so we’ve been covering it. Yet, yesterday’s revelation that 639 seniors will be dropped from on-campus housing next year hit a lot of folks close to home and has triggered a [...]
March 14th, 2007 |
by David Daddio |
published in
Downtown, General College Park, Housing, Knox Box Redevelopment, Mazza Grandmarc, Northgate Area, Route 1
We’re pleased to announce that a major (and in our view: reasonable) compromise was reached late last night on the impact fee waiver controversy. While everyone at the meeting agreed the boundary (that allows a county incentive for student housing) needs to be reduced from its original size (black line) to an area within the [...]
January 22nd, 2007 |
by Robert Catlin |
published in
General College Park, Housing, Knox Box Redevelopment, Politics
The following is a guest contribution from CP District 2 Councilman Robert Catlin. We encourage all members of the community to either send in material for us to publish or comment on individual posts. Here it is: Two issues seem to emerge with some regularity about why College Park is not moving more swiftly to [...]
December 28th, 2006 |
by Rob Goodspeed |
published in
Knox Box Redevelopment
The Knox Box area is commonly cited as one of the College Park neighborhoods most in need of new development. Located immediately adjacent campus and downtown, it is one of the few areas where local political leaders, administrators, and students alike would like to see additional student housing. In October we posted about a Diamondback [...]
December 13th, 2006 |
by Rob Goodspeed |
published in
Downtown, Events, Knox Box Redevelopment
Tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. in the Gallery of the Architecture Building, architecture and urban planning master’s student Brian Carroll will defend his thesis examining the Knox Box and downtown area of College Park. His thesis proposes a possible redevelopment of this area including changes to street alignments and the design of possible new buildings both [...]
October 24th, 2006 |
by David Daddio |
published in
Knox Box Redevelopment
Image courtesy of the DiamondbackThe Diamondback reported today on the continued ownership consolidation of the Knox Boxes just south of campus. A quick search through Maryland’s Real Property database (complete with purchase prices) reveals that Knox Village Partners LLC and Knox Box Realty LLC have acquired over half of 52 dilapidated units in just one [...]
