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Illinois State University’s Cardinal Court apartments will be razed and replaced by fall 2012 with an 800-bed “modern” apartment complex for undergraduates.

American Campus Communities Inc. has started development of a new apartment complex serving the students at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

American Campus Communities Inc. (ACC) currently is evaluating or underwriting roughly $500 million in acquisition opportunities, according to CEO Bill Bayless.

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The University at Buffalo was unable to persuade a judge to prohibit privately owned student housing adjacent to the North Campus, but there is a chance the Amherst Town Board might block the housing plan after fighting for years to allow it.
State Supreme Court Justice Gerald J. Whalen ruled this week that the university did [...]

Faced with what its leaders say is a critical shortage of student housing, Portland State University is turning to the private sector for help.
The university is working with American Campus Communities, a private student housing development and management company, on what could become a 16-story building with 238 apartments at 1950 S.W. Sixth Ave. The [...]

WSU will focus on residence halls. Kamiak and Terrace could be replaced by summer 2011.
As part of an agreement between WSU and American Campus Communities – a student-housing company based out of Austin, Texas – the apartments Kamiak and Terrace may be demolished.
Under the agreement, ACC would manage the Kamiak and Terrace apartments with a [...]

Under a possible new land lease agreement, WSU would no longer manage apartments.
A new agreement could transfer the management of WSU’s off-campus apartments to a private company for at least 65 years. Two of the university’s nine apartment complexes would likely be demolished.
Under the terms of an agreement between WSU and American Campus Communities, [...]

Boise State University is working to make it easier for students to live on campus – and will add up to 850 new places for students to rest their heads by fall of 2011.
Boise State will ink a deal with American Campus Communities, Inc. to build new on campus housing – with a new 1,200 [...]