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Community colleges get creative to find more space

March 3, 2010 /

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Community college leaders eyeing institutional expansion have found a silver lining to the depressed real estate market. Though dwindling state appropriations have halted new construction on many campuses, burgeoning student enrollments have inspired some college officials to buy dilapidated storefronts and acquire public property for development.

Officials from St. Louis Community College, in Missouri, were looking for budget-conscious solutions to their institution’s overcrowding problems. And they may have found one in an abandoned Circuit City adjacent to the college’s Florissant Valley campus.

By David Moltz, Inside Higher Ed

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-03-03-IHE-community-college-space03_ST_N.htm