Amara Rockar wrote:
Just gonna wonk out here a little. Don't mind me.
The Inky seems to have printed the high end of the one bedroom range
at Domus for effect and ended up distorting everything. (Quick!
Someone hit the staff writer with a rolled-up Inky! Bad reporter!
Bad!)
Anyway, a one bedroom in the luxurious Domus starts at $1,800 and a
two bedroom there starts at $2,800.
I remember a one bedroom at The Hub being something like $1,080 when
it first opened. They may have raised their prices since then but a
one bedroom probably hasn't rocketed up to $2,600.
Penn/Wharton students may not know the meaning of "a penny saved" but
they don't seem to be THAT far gone. Yet.
Al Krigman wrote:
2) The Inky's article stated, "The two other ritzy student apartment
complexes near Penn are the Hub and Domus,
the article left out the stratum (formerly the divine tracy
hotel). [btw, what's with these latinated names for student
housing? the domus. the radian. stratum.]
apparently (?) stratum is run by trammel crow. I don't
understand at this point how all these out-sourced
student-housing models fit in with the university's college
house system, which penn spends a lot of time and effort
developing and promoting.
anyway, according to the dp:
"Prices at The Stratum run around $150 to $200 more per
month than the most expensive housing and meal plan option
on-campus"
Kewish [a senior associate of trammel crow] argued that
"we're not asking just the rich kids to come move in and pay
a lot of money. We're looking to provide all the students
with an alternative."
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