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Post by 23won on Mar 2, 2024 10:12:18 GMT -5
I gotta say whoever had the vision to buy that school, onboard the students and programs that are quite unique (and professionally focused) to Hawk Hill with the idea of creating a new development project like this is a genius. Clark Park is a desirable area and the U Sciences campus is within the umbrella of UPenn and near the life sciences spaces in U City that carry the most expensive rents in the city. Lab space can be repurposed for venture backed startups. New commercial office space can be developed for G&A and HQ space for venture backed startups. Residential spaces can be developed near Clark Park so life sciences professionals can walk to work and enjoy the benefits of living on/near an Ivy League campus and near all that Philly has to offer. An absolute genius move by the Chair of St Joe's and whatever other team members made that happen. |
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Post by big5explorer on Mar 3, 2024 9:30:59 GMT -5
I gotta say whoever had the vision to buy that school, onboard the students and programs that are quite unique (and professionally focused) to Hawk Hill with the idea of creating a new development project like this is a genius. Clark Park is a desirable area and the U Sciences campus is within the umbrella of UPenn and near the life sciences spaces in U City that carry the most expensive rents in the city. Lab space can be repurposed for venture backed startups. New commercial office space can be developed for G&A and HQ space for venture backed startups. Residential spaces can be developed near Clark Park so life sciences professionals can walk to work and enjoy the benefits of living on/near an Ivy League campus and near all that Philly has to offer. An absolute genius move by the Chair of St Joe's and whatever other team members made that happen. Might be a genius move, from a business standpoint, if SJU ultimately makes money on the decisions to buy and sell-off U. Sciences. Just not sure it is the best PR move for SJU. |
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Post by 23won on Mar 3, 2024 10:21:00 GMT -5
Fair enough, Glitter but thanks to the Maguires, they have a lot of nice open land to build on the Montgomery County side of City Line. New labs, classrooms and dorms to be built for pharmacy life sciences students there versus Balto Ave seems like a plus when it comes to attracting students. The proceeds from the U Sciences deal should cover that. Also makes it easier to manage and provide security there.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Mar 4, 2024 10:41:20 GMT -5
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Post by 1801olney on Mar 5, 2024 16:12:22 GMT -5
From a Roman alumni email I just received "On Thursday, February 22, RCHS began its initiative of inviting university presidents to speak specifically to their accepted students in Roman's senior class.
Roman thanks President Daniel Allen of La Salle University, and his Staff, for speaking to our students, handing out swag, and informing our guys about the great opportunities La Salle offers.
In addition, President Allen announced that every Roman Catholic High School student who has been admitted will receive an additional $1,500 scholarship if they enroll at La Salle!
Our immense gratitude to La Salle University for joining us and kick starting this initiative!"
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Mar 5, 2024 19:42:25 GMT -5
🔥 stuff
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Post by gymrat67 on Jun 16, 2024 23:32:17 GMT -5
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Jun 17, 2024 6:19:14 GMT -5
There’s your merger opportunity
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Post by explorer88 on Jun 17, 2024 7:43:51 GMT -5
There’s your merger opportunity Jellybean and I used to talk for years about La Salle's need to merge with Gwynedd Mercy. He was a big proponent of working to make that happen. |
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Jun 17, 2024 8:34:28 GMT -5
There’s your merger opportunity Jellybean and I used to talk for years about La Salle's need to merge with Gwynedd Mercy. He was a big proponent of working to make that happen. It is a great candidate but La Salle must keep the masthead. The business school is the breaking point there. I like their campus (about 10m from my house) and there is a decision to be made there. La Salle is a Philadelphia school. If the thought was to move the campus (160 acres up 63, 20 minutes north of the city line), it would be definitively not a Philadelphia school. But you escape some of the problems the school is currently facing. All this is silly. But how you square those circles is fascinating. |
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jun 17, 2024 8:37:52 GMT -5
Not sure it gets us anything unless we want to move to that area and out of the city...which won't happen anytime soon.
Nursing is their most popular major. A merger with them just gets us expensive real estate. It isn't like St. Joe's acquiring USciences and getting a pharmacy program.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Jun 17, 2024 8:45:22 GMT -5
Not sure it gets us anything unless we want to move to that area and out of the city...which won't happen anytime soon. It gets you more students (too big to fail), but I agree with the second part of above. The 160 acres in Gwynned Valley is valuable for home building but it is nice land on a major road with the turnpike and 309 right nearby. It only makes sense if you're going to move most/all of your campus to that new campus. Would open up a revenue stream of kids who are never going to step foot on La Salle's campus. There's a bananas long term plan in my brain, but no reason to get into that now. |
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Post by MisterD on Jun 17, 2024 8:47:24 GMT -5
Does it involve one of Elon Musk's goofy-ass tunnels connecting the two campuses?
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Jun 17, 2024 8:51:21 GMT -5
Does it involve one of Elon Musk's goofy-ass tunnels connecting the two campuses? As long as he's driving the boring machine himself |
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jun 17, 2024 9:01:58 GMT -5
My guess is those students who are at Gwynedd for nursing are there because they don't want a city school. The merger doesn't get us those kids unless we operate in a split-campus mode. Can we move the arena there so it is more convenient for fans?
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Post by weston2 on Jun 18, 2024 10:56:33 GMT -5
LaSalle HS seemed to get it right.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Jun 18, 2024 11:05:15 GMT -5
La Salle HS seemed to get it right. Moving the whole campus to Springfield would have greatly changed the trajectory of school, no doubt. |
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Post by big5explorer on Jun 18, 2024 21:01:06 GMT -5
Thinking long-term, why couldn't La Salle become a Villanova on a nice suburban Philly campus like Gwenydd's?
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Jun 18, 2024 21:08:48 GMT -5
Thinking long-term, why couldn't La Salle become a Villanova on a nice suburban Philly campus like Gwenydd's? It could, but Villanova is five minutes from the city line. Gwynedd Mercy is 25 minutes. |
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Post by theneumann64 on Jun 18, 2024 21:53:50 GMT -5
Man, I know the handicaps that being located where it’s located brings, but I went to college at 20th and Olney. Satellite campuses are one thing but it ceases being the school I went to if they were to move entirely into the suburbs.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Jun 19, 2024 4:56:03 GMT -5
I agree, but if the alternative is the school ceases existing all together…
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Post by theneumann64 on Jun 19, 2024 7:05:17 GMT -5
Yeah I get that. As a purely theoretical exercise, I'd go so far as to say I wouldn't even necessarily blame the school if they decided to move campuses to the suburbs. But I would struggle to find any emotional attachment anymore. Obviously any students I was there with are long gone, and every year there's less and less professors/admins/whoever else that were there from 2004-2008 that are still there. The attachment just becomes to the actual physical place at some point.
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Post by las71 on Jun 19, 2024 7:43:16 GMT -5
I can't see how La Salle could totally relocate to the Gwynedd campus. Where's the buyer for 20th and Olney? If a merger were to occur La Salle would likely keep both locations and try and determine the highest and best use for each campus.We're going to need a lot of shuttle bus drivers if this happens.
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Post by theneumann64 on Jun 19, 2024 7:50:45 GMT -5
Yeah I think we're just doing a round "Comprehensive Message Board Theory" not about anything actually happening in reality.
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Post by calsufan on Jun 19, 2024 9:17:03 GMT -5
Yeah I think we're just doing a round "Comprehensive Message Board Theory" not about anything actually happening in reality. What are you talking about? We always deal in reality on this board. We're going to the Final Four next year baby!  |
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jun 19, 2024 11:43:42 GMT -5
What are you talking about? We always deal in reality on this board. We're going to the Final Four next year baby! I'd be happy with an A10 Final Four. |
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Post by explorerman on Jun 19, 2024 13:41:41 GMT -5
I can't see how La Salle could totally relocate to the Gwynedd campus. Where's the buyer for 20th and Olney? If a merger were to occur La Salle would likely keep both locations and try and determine the highest and best use for each campus.We're going to need a lot of shuttle bus drivers if this happens. The city |
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Jun 19, 2024 16:14:59 GMT -5
I think La Salle should downsize. Keep the arena and Basil and college hall and the track and wister and the eatery next to wister. Everything else can be firesale and ship it north. But it's probably not going to happen. But it could happen. Maybe. Who knows.
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Post by hoopsguest on Jun 19, 2024 20:07:03 GMT -5
The location at 20th and Olney allows nursing students to tend to the less fortunate in the area. Students especially education majors can tutor neighborhood kids. The location lends to the essence of what the university stands for. Obviously the long term viability is a concern but I also don’t want the university to lose the things that makes it special
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Jun 20, 2024 9:36:21 GMT -5
Since we're throwing out pipe-dreams here....relocate to Immaculata. Target the growing Chester County population. Be more suburban than Villanova on a campus with 3x the acreage that La Salle has currently. Give me a 20 minute drive to games.
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