AUSTIN, TX-Both large and small universities across the US are increasingly interested in establishing private-public partnerships to satisfy their demand for modern student housing, according to James Wilhelm III, executive vice president of public/private transactions for American Campus Communities Inc.

Wilhelm made the announcement during the student housing REIT’s third quarter earnings conference call. “We see an abundant pipeline of institutions expressing interest in utilizing public-private partnerships to deliver new, on-campus housing using both equity-based and project-based debt structures,” he said during the call.

Specifically, ACC has nailed down two new pre-development relationships – one with Princeton University and one with the University of Wyoming.