Most the land behind Burlington College has officially changed hands. On Tuesday, the school announced that it sold just more than 27 acres of its campus to developer Eric Farrell. This includes a large tract of lakefront land, a cottage on North Avenue and an apartment building on Lakeview Terrace.
Farrell intends to construct several hundred units of mixed housing on the campus site. A group of residents who want to preserve the land as open space are organizing to oppose his plan. Meanwhile, city officials say they are discussing with Farrell the possibility of preserving public access to certain parts of the property.
The deal, first announced in October, has changed several times since then. College officials have said that the sale will bring more financial security to the struggling institution. The recently appointed president, Carol Moore, said in a statement Tuesday, “Burlington College has a bright future and this is the first step in that direction.”
The college is keeping six acres and the North Avenue building where classes are held. It plans to sell the larger adjacent building — formerly an orphanage — to Farrell next year.
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Hornswagled by Bernie Sanders and his wife Jane Burlington College is left a festering gobutit bankrupt in their home with the echoes of children being raped haunting the property they inhabit.
Lucky Burlington will now get a crap pile built by Eric Farrrel soviet style gulags and mc mansions. Architecture bereft of any imagination or grace. What a swell shit show for Burlington. I guess its appropriate having this monument of dreck built on the land of the boybumpers child rapist property. It is the circle of life after all.
Sanders has made hsi deal for his millionaire and billionaire buddies.
$10,000,000. Jane Sanders said in a Vermont Woman interview at the time of the purchase “It’s fabulous. We are leaving a 16,000 square foot building on 2 acres to a 77,000 square foot building on 34 acres. Instead of a lake view, we have lakefront.” At the time, they had 200 students and were the only college in Burlington to now have a beach. She promised to double the enrollment to 400 and “Grow slowly.” None of this made or makes any sense. The Diocese needed money for legal reasons, but what did Burlington College need?
http://www.vermontwoman.com/articles/2011/…