TY - JOUR
T1 - A New Skyline for Champaign
T2 - An Urban Dormitory Transformed
AU - Pendall, Rolf
AU - Prochaska, Natalie
AU - Allred, Dustin
AU - Hillyard, Caitlin
N1 - This is a key example of local autonomous agents working in an ad hoc coalition toward the same goal (Hopkins & Knaap, ). The Burnham 310 developer, Pickus Companies, Inc., wanted the Second Street Basin amenity in order to justify the unit prices set to recover their up-front development costs. The City wanted it to boost property values enough to repay TIF bond debt taken on for the Boneyard Creek improvements, and to justify the additional $1.4 million in bordering Stoughton Street infrastructure improvements made to facilitate the Burnham development. The Park District wanted Scott Park and the Second Street Basin to create as much high-quality recreational green space as possible, to maximize pedestrian circulation. As a result, the first-phase Scott Park improvements (total cost $750,000) were paid for by combining an Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) grant, the Champaign Park District Capital Improvement Funds, and the City’s Burnham 310 area-targeted TIF revenues, plus $125,000 from the Burnham 310 developer (SS 2005-071, SS 2007-001, CB 2009-080).
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Like many university cities, Champaign, Illinois, has recently experienced a surge in student housing in its Campustown neighborhood, with 25 developments and over 2500 new housing units built from 2008 to 2019. Four of the new buildings exceed 10 stories, far denser and more imposing than the Campustown of only two decades ago. The local conventional wisdom holds that this growth resulted from loosened zoning restrictions, an explanation we reject. Instead, our interviews and document analysis reveal a more complex interplay of infrastructure investment, university enrolment policies, developer decision-making, and investment capital. Our analysis shows how government, developer, and university stakeholders interacted with one another in what Norton Long called the local ecology of games, updating Campustown into a student dormitory for a larger and more elite student body.
AB - Like many university cities, Champaign, Illinois, has recently experienced a surge in student housing in its Campustown neighborhood, with 25 developments and over 2500 new housing units built from 2008 to 2019. Four of the new buildings exceed 10 stories, far denser and more imposing than the Campustown of only two decades ago. The local conventional wisdom holds that this growth resulted from loosened zoning restrictions, an explanation we reject. Instead, our interviews and document analysis reveal a more complex interplay of infrastructure investment, university enrolment policies, developer decision-making, and investment capital. Our analysis shows how government, developer, and university stakeholders interacted with one another in what Norton Long called the local ecology of games, updating Campustown into a student dormitory for a larger and more elite student body.
KW - Upzoning
KW - ecology of games
KW - land use
KW - parking
KW - real estate
KW - student housing
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U2 - 10.1080/10511482.2022.2124532
DO - 10.1080/10511482.2022.2124532
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85139846217
SN - 1051-1482
VL - 34
SP - 722
EP - 745
JO - Housing Policy Debate
JF - Housing Policy Debate
IS - 5
ER -