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Old 07-28-2023, 06:34 AM
 
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
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Houston.... I mean Birmingham, we have a problem! We all know UAB is the states largest single employer, and that it's growing like kudzu. But, now, after building tons of downtown student dorms and apartments, the fast growing university can't keep up with the even faster growing number of students that want to be downtown! Awesome news for downtown Birmingham! I've watched UAB buildd new dorms in the past few years, and some private companies that have built developments like The Marshall for students to live downtown. Still......it seems that UAB can't keep up with the fast growing number of students choosing to live downtown Birmingham! Again, Awesome for the city center! You know what I say.....let's get to work UAB building more student housing downtown!


https://www.wvtm13.com/article/stude...acity/44667612

https://abc3340.com/newsletter-daily...tments-demand#
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Old 07-28-2023, 08:13 AM
 
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It's a problem, but a good one. UAB enrollment keeps growing and more and more students want to be on campus. The transformation of UAB into a more traditional campus while still being in a city has been incredible and will only continue.

Also, a much larger population of students (than the historical norm) that don't live on campus are doing so in campus adjacent apartments rather than living at home. Those students are still walking/biking to campus from the Parkside & Midtown area.

As for the dorms, I know the campus master plan has another dorm planned for some of the open space between Rast Hall and 10th Ave S. It would be much smaller than the two newest dorms - in the 150-200 bed range.
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Old 08-01-2023, 04:57 AM
 
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
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There's going to be another construction crane going up in Downtown Birmingham shortly as UAB breaks ground on another major facility! There's gotta be hundreds of millions of dollars worth of development going on at UAB at any given time!


https://www.uab.edu/news/campus/item...of-engineering
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Old 08-02-2023, 11:22 PM
 
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
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This is huge for UAB and the City of Birmingham!

https://www.al.com/news/2023/08/who-...ace-fauci.html
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Old 08-03-2023, 08:08 AM
 
Location: Birmingham, U.S.A.
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Is this all because of Watts' leadership? Seems like the school has increased its growth exponentially and started so many new projects over the last few years.
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Old 08-03-2023, 10:29 AM
 
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Is this all because of Watts' leadership? Seems like the school has increased its growth exponentially and started so many new projects over the last few years.
More like a couple key members on the BOT that were anti-UAB aged off the board. The BOT is as friendly towards UAB as probably they've ever been so more projects are getting through. The BOT as a whole has moved from antagonistic to ambivalent. Next step is to move them to advocates.

Watts gets some credit, but he's largely just a figure head of a massive enterprise that has had some of the handcuffs taken off. In some ways (mainly on the undergrad side) UAB could be doing more in terms of student recruitment to really grow enrollment, improving the undergrad educational metrics to match the med school/research side, investing in student life, and pursuing AAU status. I believe UAB is 1st or 2nd in research funding among non-AAU schools and outpaces many of them in total research funding.
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Old 08-03-2023, 12:35 PM
 
Location: Birmingham, U.S.A.
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Awesome, that's just the kind of answer I was hoping for.
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Old 08-09-2023, 05:37 PM
 
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More like a couple key members on the BOT that were anti-UAB aged off the board. The BOT is as friendly towards UAB as probably they've ever been so more projects are getting through. The BOT as a whole has moved from antagonistic to ambivalent. Next step is to move them to advocates.

Watts gets some credit, but he's largely just a figure head of a massive enterprise that has had some of the handcuffs taken off. In some ways (mainly on the undergrad side) UAB could be doing more in terms of student recruitment to really grow enrollment, improving the undergrad educational metrics to match the med school/research side, investing in student life, and pursuing AAU status. I believe UAB is 1st or 2nd in research funding among non-AAU schools and outpaces many of them in total research funding.

That and the BOT realized that UAB is the third rail of Birmingham politics.


I don't care if you're black, white, urban, suburban, blue collar, white collar, straight, gay, Republican, Democrat, liberal, or conservative. If you live in the Birmingham metro area, you take a dim view of people screwing with UAB.


In a way, when the Alabama BOT nixed UAB football, it united Birmingham in ways that no amount of internal politics could have. I'm pretty sure they don't want that firestorm again.
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Old 09-05-2023, 08:42 PM
 
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
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You know you are dealing with an economic powerhouse when an institution in your city can swallow up a 19 story office tower! UAB continues to be a major blessing to downtown Birmingham Alabama!

https://bhamnow.com/2023/09/05/uab-t...ngham-for-16m/
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Old 09-06-2023, 09:12 AM
 
Location: Birmingham, AL
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$16 million seems absurdly low for a 19-story office tower. I know it's dated, but is it in bad shape?
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