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Re:Fancy Dorms Aren’t the Main Reason Tuition Is Skyrocketing by analogwzrd on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @02:20PM (#12499798)
When I was applying to college in 2006, one of the big selling points at the University of Alabama was that the honors dorms had a lazy river.

I wonder if the "fancy" dorms are only a thing in non-city universities. It would make sense that building fancy, new dorms in a downtown area in a place like Boston or New York just wouldn't be worth it.

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Re:Fancy Dorms Aren’t the Main Reason Tuition Is Skyrocketing by g52oevr0in on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @02:41PM (#12499997)
Universities get a property tax exemption that allows them to do things with land in downtown areas that wouldn't be economically rational for typical real estate investors.
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