It is a necessity if our objective is to provide higher quality education. It's not uncommon that a very good student has to go away to Orlando or South Florida.
Typically, you don't go vertical until the land values are so high you can't go horizontal anymore.
It's important that communities maintain their sense of place identity, so that they are not just one more blob of suburban sprawl, that they are something special ... People do like themes.
There are various areas in the state where students don't have good access to higher education.
If we were to look 15 years down the road, I believe Waldo Road will be a significant retail destination.
We had to beg people 10 years ago to build something, ... I was a sleepy place. Today, downtown Gainesville is one of the hottest real estate markets in Alachua County.
A thousand people move to Florida each day. Four hundred people leave each day, giving us a net increase of 600 a day. That is right now.
If we're going to have access to higher education in the state, there will have to be more branches of already existing campuses or new campuses.
