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Author    Post   Adam Ford F L I N T O I D You're Invited! The University of Michigan-Flint will break ground On the New Student Housing Monday, July 16, 2007 11 a.m. Ceremony 11:30 a.m. Celebration Murchie Science Building Lot G Free Food! Free Games! Free Fun for Everyone! To RSVP, please call (810) 767-2150 (I got this off myspace) _________________ Adam Ford Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:45 pm  Ryan Eashoo F L I N T O I D THATS AWESOME! This is really going to help infuse downtown with needed development piece to encourage others to invest and build down here! _________________ Flint Michigan Resident, Tax Payer, Flint Nutt - Local REALTOR - Activist. www.FlintTown.com Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:56 am  Adam F L I N T O I D FYI this is tomorrow. Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:52 pm  Steve Myers Site Admin Updated: UM-Flint starts its transformation to student housing Monday Posted by Beata Mostafavi July 15, 2007 20:00PM Categories: Breaking News, Flint, K-12 Education Note: Earlier editions of this item gave the wrong day for the groundbreaking. FLINT -- It's the start of a transformation. And for alums such as Johnny Young, watching Monday's groundbreaking for student housing at the University of Michigan-Flint is kind of like seeing a little kid all grown up. Young was a student in 1977 when the university became a downtown fixture by moving to its first own building now known as French Hall. Almost exactly 30 years later, Young will witness another historical milestone for his alma mater -- this time as an administrator. And Monday definitely starts a new chapter as UM-Flint breaks ground on the long-awaited student housing project bordering First Street, a step that will ultimately push the institution out of its commuter campus bubble. "It's a transformation for all of us this year. Student housing is going to change the nature of our campus," said Young, 47, who graduated from UM-Flint in 1983 and is now assistant vice chancellor for student services. "I've had the pleasure of watching the university mature and grow. I think this will be an emotional lift for the community, especially for those who have watched it evolve." Monday's 11 a.m. groundbreaking is the product of years of hard-fought struggles by outgoing Chancellor Juan Mestas. For some, it also symbolizes how far the university has come and hope for where the city can go. "With the hard times we've experienced here, University of Michigan-Flint and all of the local colleges and universities have kind been the hope or beacon if you will," Young said. Monday represents a fresh hope, one that 24/7 student life downtown will help twist the city back into a vibrant place. And that the university's growth will help spur community growth. "It isn't a silver bullet for downtown, but it's going help contribute to progress," said Neal Hegarty, program officer at the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation that's a key funding source of the $21.3-million project. "It's going to be a fundamental change to street life in downtown Flint. It's hard to quantify that change, to see where we'll be in 10 years, but it's a step in the right direction." For many UM-Flint alumni, Monday's celebration also evokes a nostalgic sentiment of how it all started and big visions of what's to come. Laura Tobias, who lives barely minutes away from the university's old location in the Mott Memorial Building on Court Street, was a student from 1975-79. She remembers when students could frequent a string of bars, a local diner, natural foods store and stationary shop downtown before all of them closed. Monday is a new day. "I have to agree with all the boosters of Flint who say we're going to start selling ourselves as a university and college town," said Tobias, 49, who teacher English at Mott Community College, her onetime UM-Flint campus. "I think we will make a transition." http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/newsnow/2007/07/umflint_starts_its_transformat.html _________________ Steve Myers Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:46 pm  rapunzel11 F L I N T O I D Laura Tobias also organizes a summer creative writing summer camp for youth at MCC. Great chance for children to experience the college campus environment at an elementary age. Kudos to Tobias for supporting Flint Students to achieve! RAP _________________ The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963 Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:00 am  Adam F L I N T O I D Rapunzel you're back. Anyways this event was even much better than I even anticipated. There were 400 chairs set up. They were filled and I estimate there were another 300-400 standing. The dorms should hold 310 students. The event was very well attended by local elected officials and every well organized by the University. As long as the dorms fill up hopefully very quickly there should be more dorms going up in Flint. Having dorms should add considerably to the morale at UM-Flint which was already high. Everyone was very generous of departing chancelor Juan Mestas who's tremendous leadership lead to this great achievement. _________________ Adam - Mysearchisover.com - FB - Jobs Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:26 am    Display posts from previous:   All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First

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