college town

It's the energy and atmosphere of a festival, really.

This year, the theme is Powering Europe's University Cities, which explores the essential role that students and student housing play in supporting competitive and internationally connected cities while addressing the growing pressures around housing supply access and the student experience and day one is innovative site tours across amsterdam they're always super super interesting so if you're going i recommend that you definitely book on to some of those tours and then the day two program is taking place at het seerad Totally haven't pronounced that right.

One of Amsterdam's most distinctive historic event venues.

So we love starting the day with the championing women in leadership breakfast that has become traditional now.

All right, let's get into it.

Today we are talking about whether or not college towns might be a hidden retail gem.

And I love this topic because who doesn't love to talk about college? Now, we're not going to share stories of yesteryear.

That's a different kind of podcast, right, to share college stories.

But we are going to dive into why college towns should be looked at differently, right? There's so many other metrics that are unique because of the demand drivers aside from just population density and things that would maybe outline a core versus secondary market.

So I love this idea.

We're going to look at – where we see the growth and why we think there might be more opportunity.

Let's start with sales.

And the reason I say this is that what will simply happen is that fraternities can move their parties to annexes off campus.

So if you, um, come to Cornell's campus, you'll find that there is a kind of sprawling series of fraternity annexes off campus just outside the university's perimeter in College Town, and these are privately owned residences that parties will simply move to, and there's not really a whole lot that the university can do about that.

So the parties, I think, most likely will continue, and that was something that was, um, told to me by former fraternity, uh, president, um, who I, I interviewed him on Tuesday morning, actually, prior to this announcement, and he said that even if there was a ban on parties on campus for fraternities, um, they would just go elsewhere.

So I think, um, that measure is insufficient.

yeah i was like even as a ninth grader in my mind i was like wait a second like shouldn't y'all be able to fix this instead of just like tell me i gotta have the ones you could take in and out because yeah like my bottom teeth have moved and i don't know if i'll ever maybe one day i'll invest in a visit in visit line or something but yeah i got one right here that's moved back a ton that's yeah i i feel you on that part

yeah i feel you Uh, the diddler 69 says, what's the top three college towns.

Now I'm going off of ones that I have been to.

That's the only ones I can comment on.

And I'm just saying this is just, uh, something that, uh, you can't believe everything you read, so it's important that you do your research.

[laughs] And then moving on, you may be surprised to learn that Prescott is actually a college town.

I bet you didn't know that.

Uh, we have three wonderful, uh, learning academies here.

There are a lot of Jewish people that go to school there.

So normally, this is, you know, pretty very liberal town with, you know, College Town-

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... and everything.