@MiddleburyDad2 wrote:
I think that’s pretty accurate. Ultimately, I think the only solution for colleges with historic downtown locations is to stop waiting for gentrification to come (the days when you could lure a world-class biochemist with the promise of a modest one-car garage home on a tiny lot are LONG gone) and instead encourage commercial retail development. Lots of it. And, if you can’t finance it yourself, the way Yale did twenty years ago, move different components of your campus to where the commerce is: