$61 million seems really low ball to me. I grew up a stone’s throw from T&C and used to cross country ski on the golf course for years. Lots of rolling hills, some really steep. Gorgeous venue! St. Thomas could build an entirely new campus there with all their sports fields included. I wouldn’t particularly like to see it happen but it’d be a great move if they could get the property.
Thanks for this insight and viewpoint. This sheds another light on the topic.
I'm guessing someone on the UST side of things leaked it to put pressure on and they had to respond. There was a embezzlement scandal a couple years ago and they know UST is going to keep trying to buy the land, so those are a couple of reasons to do their due diligence on this. This isn't the first time UST has thrown a proposal. The rumor is UST is about 90 million short of where there would be serious consideration. The Club would want 150 million and time to buy new land if there was a sale.
What the hell are you talking about with eminent domain?
Perhaps barrister could pursue this route.
Except UST is a Private University dumbass
What an idiotic post.
If it were for a public institution, I could maybe see something like this, but UST is a private school.
I wonder if they would consider a partial land sale and drop down to fewer holes? Of course that can kind of defeat the point of a golf club.
Your continued use of that image is so sophomoric that Matt Gaetz just asked it to prom.
That how the Nets got a new building in Brooklyn, a developer wanted property and had deep enough pockets to buy the team, get the property in Brooklyn, than sell the team and keep the excess property.
It's not that nice of a golf course as far as country clubs are concerned. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
You clearly don't understand what Eminent Domain means. Take the L and move on
Not going to lie I didn't know they started a nursing program. I'm kind of a UST hater but thats kind of cool at the same time.
Golf = waste of real estate
With the amount of people being able to work from home now, the downtown non-residential market is pretty cold. That said, for the same reasons, the need to have a campus downtown is also diminishing. But I think they keep the law school and the business school downtown.
Spot on. If they are concerned with 61 million they aren’t expanding
Yeah, I know a few companies are going back but I think there will be a downtick in the number of people who have to go into an office. I hope it does come back because the entire economic ecosystem of downtowns is pretty fragile. It relies on pretty much full utilization of a lunch crowd, parking crowd, etc. It doesn't take much for a vibrant downtown to start looking like DT Cleveland or Pittsburgh.
Definitely a good point, I think a couple of good sized employers have left as well. You are probably right, someone else had mentioned that one of their selling points is being able to work and go to school downtown so could be tough to pull out and bad timing.
You have absolutely no, nada, none idea about the $$$$$ it takes to start and operate a medical school.
Something that will help is that there has been a focus on downtown housing for 10-15 years already. It is less of a commuter downtown than it used to be (though it still is)
