CHARLOTTE, NC-What’s good for the goose of higher education is apparently good for the gander of urban development. That’s the message coming from Johnson & Wales University here as the school breaks ground on two new buildings.

The university’s new academic center will be a five-story, 145,000-sf facility running along this city’s West Trade Street. A new student residence hall will add another 192,000 feet to the plan and offer housing for roughly 650 students. The center was designed by L3SP Ltd., while the residence hall was created by Little Diversified Architectural Consulting. The campus, its first foothold in Charlotte, is set to open in 2004 with an enrollment of 884 students. The Charlotte campus joins the university’s other outposts in Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Colorado and Sweden.

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