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Originally Posted by Sigaven
I guess I already know the answer is two things: "bottom dollar" and "student housing." Developers know that students don't care how a building looks, they just want an affordable place to live. So, cheapest materials, cheapest construction, and cheapest designs. Which unfortunately means awful buildings like this.
Still, other developers seem to at least give aesthetics a little thought, like aspen heights or Pointe on Rio. Wish more could be like those buildings, especially big tall ones like Skyloft.
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Honestly I think with the way downtown is growing, there's a chance that things could start to change in that area. West campus is already so dense, and when downtown, and particularly commercial buildings start to creep north like they already have, more and more non-students will look to live in west campus.
For example, I owned a condo in west campus that I lived at while I was an undergrad there, and when I moved out, I leased the place to a doctor for a year.