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starbuck’s, one is opening soon in the Safeway at 25<sup>th</sup> and Charles.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Discussion-bounces@charlesvillage.info
[mailto:Discussion-bounces@charlesvillage.info] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Judy Berlin<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, September 02, 2006
5:22 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Charles
Village Discussion List</st1:PersonName>; gewirtz@bellatlantic.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Discussion] <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hopkins</st1:place></st1:City> dorm opens,
igniting renewal hopes</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>if coldstone creamery is to really open then i am in
big trouble. i had a sample of their product when i was in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">salisbury</st1:place></st1:City> last week. i was in ice cream
heaven. customers can watch as their flavors are hand mixed. tastes good good
good good and better. judy<br>
On Sep 4, 2006, at 1:35 PM, gewirtz@bellatlantic.net wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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This story was sent to you by: gewirtz@bellatlantic.net<br>
Note that Streuver Brothers is having difficulty selling its condos for the
asking price. See the end of the article. Maybe CV will not be so gentrified
after all. Steve. <br>
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<b><?bigger><?bigger><?bigger><?bigger><?bigger><?bigger><?bigger><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Hopkins dorm opens, igniting renewal hopes</span><?/bigger><?/bigger><?/bigger><?/bigger><?/bigger><?/bigger><?/bigger></b><br>
Complex is key element of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Charles</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Village</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> project<br>
By Gadi Dechter<br>
Sun reporter<br>
September 4, 2006<br>
<br>
Though she had hoped for a bit more space, sophomore Jess Buicko nonetheless
pronounced her 100-square-foot bedroom in the new <st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE>Johns</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Hopkins</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType><?/color>
residence hall "4 million times better" than her freshman digs on the
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Homewood</st1:place></st1:City>
campus.<br>
<br>
The 18-year-old <st1:City w:st="on">Albany</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">N.Y.</st1:State>,
native was one of more than 600 college sophomores and upperclassmen moving
yesterday and today into the $60 million <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Charles</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Commons</st1:PlaceName>, a two- tower complex at <st1:City
w:st="on">St. Paul</st1:City> and 33rd streets in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on"><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE>Charles</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Village</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><?/color>.<br>
<br>
The university's first dorm for upperclassmen is the first of three adjacent
mixed-use projects in the North Baltimore neighborhood that officials hope will
transform a sleepy redoubt into a vibrant "college town" - and
address undergraduate dissatisfaction with Hopkins college life, rising
town-gown tensions and street crime.<br>
<br>
Marketed as Village Commons by lead developer Struever Bros., Eccles &
Rouse, the $170 million development includes the dorm towers, two high-end
condominium projects currently under construction, more than 50,000 square feet
of street-level shops and restaurants, and a new parking garage with nearly 400
spaces for the public.<br>
<br>
The project will be anchored by a two-story Barnes & Noble bookstore,
containing a Starbucks cafe, scheduled to open at the end of October in the
dorm complex. The new store will replace a much smaller bookstore in the
basement of a classroom building on campus.<br>
<br>
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hopkins</st1:place></st1:City>
students yesterday greeted the prospect of Starbucks coffee with more a sense
of entitlement than enthusiasm.<br>
<br>
"This is probably the only nook of the world that doesn't already have a
Starbucks," said sophomore Sarah Ratzenberger of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Westchester County</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">N.Y.</st1:State></st1:place><br>
<br>
Soon, it will have two.<br>
<br>
In addition to the in-store cafe, the Seattle-based coffee retailer will open a
stand-alone shop less than a block south, on the street level of the 68-unit
Village Lofts condo building, according to Jamie Lanham, head of Struever
Bros.' commercial real estate division.<br>
<br>
That building will also house a Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant, a Coldstone
Creamery ice cream shop, a Cloud 9 clothing store, a locally owned stationers
and the reincarnation of a convenience store displaced by construction, to be
called University Gourmet.<br>
<br>
An additional 15,000 square feet of retail space will open up across the street,
at the base of the 107-unit Olmsted condominium building, scheduled for
completion in early 2008, according to a spokesman.<br>
<br>
The only confirmed retail tenants in that building are a Royal Farms
convenience store and a florist shop, but Struever Bros. development director,
Joshua Nieman, said the company was working to attract a wine bar at one
corner, and a "bistro-type restaurant" at the other.<br>
<br>
Though <st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE>Charles</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Village</st1:PlaceName><?/color> has a reputation for
jealously protecting its quirky, iconoclastic image of "painted lady"
Victorian rowhouses and bohemian edge, the mood on the street among students,
residents and veteran <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE>Charles</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Village</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><?/color>
merchants was mostly supportive of national retail chains and upscale shopping
options.<br>
<br>
"It's fantastic," said Eli Sendelman, 21, an art history major from <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:City>. "I
think it's good to gussy up the neighborhood a little bit. Not too much, but it
needs a kick, a swift kick."<br>
<br>
When he arrived in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE>Charles</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Village</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><?/color> three
years ago, Sendelman said he "didn't understand why the main drag, as it
were, was so dismal. Why couldn't they have a little [<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on">Harvard Square</st1:address></st1:Street>] going on around
here?"<br>
<br>
Jerry Gordon, owner of the Eddie's of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on"><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE>Charles</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Village</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><?/color> market, said he
welcomed the competition from other food-service businesses. "I think it's
great. I've been waiting for this for a long time," said Gordon, whose
family has operated the store since 1962. "I don't know why it took so
long."<br>
<br>
Paula Berger, Hopkins dean of undergraduate education, said impetus for action
partly came from a 2002-2003 university commission she chaired that found deep
discontent among undergraduates about their residential and social lives.<br>
<br>
Among the commission's findings was that undergraduates lacked spaces to
socialize, shared few traditions other than cutthroat academic competitiveness,
and often felt like second-class citizens in a university whose national
reputation was largely made on the strengths of its graduate programs in
medicine, science and engineering.<br>
<br>
"Plenty of evidence suggests that improving residential and social life
can go a long way toward breaking an endemic culture of competitiveness and
complaint," the Commission on Undergraduate Education said in its final
report.<br>
<br>
By 2003, institutional and private investment in "college town"
projects was a national trend, as the economic desirability of universities as
neighborhood anchors was becoming clear, said Randy Ruttenberg, a principal in
Fairmount Properties, a Cleveland-based developer of such projects.<br>
<br>
Among widely mentioned college-town success stories is a 1998
hotel-and-bookstore development at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>
that has spawned a robust commercial district next to campus.<br>
<br>
Penn's vice president for business services, Marie Witt, said the resulting
increase in pedestrian traffic has improved neighborhood safety, a benefit <st1:City
w:st="on">Hopkins</st1:City> officials also hope for in <st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE>Charles</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Village</st1:PlaceName><?/color>, where two <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hopkins</st1:place></st1:City> undergraduates
were killed in off-campus apartments within nine months of each other in 2004
and 2005.<br>
<br>
During the recent housing boom, median home prices in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on"><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE>Charles</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Village</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><?/color> rose from under
$100,000 in 2000 to $270,000 last year, according to data aggregated by Live
Baltimore.<br>
<br>
Tensions between homeowners and students renters-particularly fraternity
members who host frequent parties-have risen along with the home prices.<br>
<br>
Beth Bullamore, outgoing president of the <?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE>Charles
Village<?/color> Civic Association, said she expected the new residence hall
would reduce undergraduate demand for rowhouse rentals, which would in turn
encourage landlords to upgrade them or sell to prospective single-family
occupants.<br>
<br>
"The best part of this is we get the residential areas back for permanent,
full-time residents and the students [go into] space that's more appropriate
for them," Bullamore said.<br>
<br>
But John Hinegardner, who owns about 200 rental units in the neighborhood,
including several properties used as fraternity houses, said demand remained
strong, and that rents continue to increase, despite a slowdown in the real
estate market.<br>
<br>
Indeed, some <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE>Charles</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Village</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><?/color>
residents worried that gentrification would force them to leave the
neighborhood. Jeremiah Spencer, 29, an engineering technician who makes less
than $40,000 a year, said he would likely leave the area after renting there
for six years, and try to buy a house north of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on"><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE>Patterson</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Park</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><?/color>. "I don't want to see
Starbucks here," Spencer said. "I absolutely hate those condos. I
always wanted to buy a house in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><?color><?param 0000,0000,EEEE>Charles</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Village</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><?/color> and now
it's unobtainable."<br>
<br>
Meanwhile, some supporters of the Struever Bros. development worried that the
slumping housing market would stall the neighborhood's revitalization.<br>
<br>
About a quarter of the Village Loft condominiums have been reserved with a
deposit, according to the developer. Scheduled for completion around the end of
this year, the condos have asking prices ranging from the high-$300,000s to the
mid-$500,000s.<br>
<br>
Penthouse units in The Olmsted will carry prices in the high-$700,000s, but
William Struever, president and CEO of Struever Bros., expressed confidence in
his marketing strategy, noting that more than half the condos in that building
would be offered at less than $400,000, many starting in the mid-$300,000s.
That would appear to represent a price reduction, because signs around the
construction site advertise units starting at $400,000.<br>
<br>
But Struever insisted there had been no markdown. "We're still reflecting
increased pricing," he said. "In fact, the pricing we have today is
substantially higher that we started with."<br>
<br>
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