Re: New campus housing options
Originally Posted by
B. b. bison
My memory may be failing me but didn't this board, some years ago, get a few months of entertainment out of shitting on UND for the expense of their on-campus parking ramp and how the parking fees for the ramp would never recover the building expense?
Yep, just 13 short years ago.
///What vision! A parking ramp!
What a buy! $19 million (the amount they now want bonding for) for 600 new parking spots (the net number of new spots)!
Anybody good at math, my back of the envelope calculations give me about $32,000 per new parking spot.
At a 5 % return per year that means a student should pay $1600 a year per spot.
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