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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1995)
Bid to save Amazon units fails Lori Bettlneskl Ovpco Q*A f ■ner^tkl Plans to demolish Amazon Family Housing units an* now under way after University Hous mg officials rejei ted an outside pun hasing hid made last month In an effort to save the low-income housing units from demolition. Amazon Community Housing. Inc. submitted a hid to the University to huy and renovate the aging units on December 7. Terms of the sale required them to provide a certified or cashiers check in an amount not less than to per i ent of the total bid ($500,000) and an equivalent land ext hange Because Amazon Community Housing, Ini . did not meet those requirements and was the only bid der to submit a proposal by the deadline, the (Ini versity has since filed for a permit to demolish the complex. "We (Amazon Community Housing. Inc ) were disappointed hv the University’s dm ision, but we weren’t surprised.’’ said Sharon Millman, an Aina zon tenant who wrote the purchase proposal "The really sad part about all this is that the University is setting the clock back 10 years or more on low ini orne housing efforts here in Eugene. After all the work the city has done, now we’re just tread ing water and not moving forward at all ” Ai cording to Mike Eyster. director of I Iniversity Housing, replacing the old Amazon units with new, energy-efficient structures w ill add to the current University housing capacity and ensure its viability in the future. Eyster said a reconstructed Amazon complex would add capacity for Hi fam ilies to the University's housing stock The University plans to replai e Amazon with a new 280-unit complex in two phases. The first phase for redevelopment is at the south end of th*> sit«» The area was vacated gradually during the 199.1-94 school year in order to mini mize disruption to students’ families and the impact on the local rental market. The replacement units in this first phase are antis ipated to be ready for txi upancy by the fall of 1996 Demolition on the second phase is anticipated to start in 1996, and new structures are expected to Ice ready for occupancy by the fall of 1997. Uni versity housing offii inis anticipate a two-bedroom apartment at the newly developed complex will rent for approximately $400 a month, although Millmnn and other tenants at the unit are skepti cal "They can say $400. hut unless they have some thing up their sleeve, that isn’t what the costs will really be.” Mi liman said ’It will coat at least S2(M1 for maintenam e and operation and $355 for loan and debt servii es Obviously simple mathematic s put the ii( tunl i ost at $555, not $400 “If the University had a cepted our pun fume hid last month, the rent would have been between $ t()0 arid $ 150," Millman said. "Now a lot of the tenants are looking at having to leave school because of the increase in prices The Historic Review Board is reviewing the Uni versity’s demolition permit application and will reveal its findings during a sjhw ml hearing sc hed uled for lanuarv 19 Kugene city staff indicate the board may delay issuing the permit up to 120 days but cannot deny the permit ferry McDonald, dins tor of St Vincent Dei’uul has been talking to city officials about the possi bility of purt basing the units and moving them to another site, instead of allowing the University to demolish the historic housing units after officially receiving the permit. Mi IV in,ilit i i mid nut !»■ n- n lu-d ! uesd iv fur fur ther comment. Students set for regional College Bowl Gayle Forman Orogon Dairy t mmaM "What is the sin of money lend ing called?" came the question. And though University student Holley Powell didn't know much about the technical names for religious sins, she somehow knew the answer. “Usury," she replied. In February, Powell, u gradu ate student in political science will join four other knowledge able students representing the University in the regional Col lege Bowl competition at I.in field College. Powell will be joined by Tim Blackman, Drew Mirante. Peter Rayls and John Watson in the competition The five students will flex their intellectual muscle and show their prowess of trivia along with contenders from around the Pacific Northwest Powell got together a team of people "just for fun " No one studied, sweated or took things too seriously, hut nonetheless, Powell's team — an off-campus team — advanced to the play off round, where they competed against teams from the dorms and off-campus residences Iter team lost in the playoffs, but Powell showed such a knack for knowing the unknown that sh# was chosen to lie tm tbe allstnr loam Drew Mirantu was one of the dorm know-it-alls who was liaud picked for the all-star foam He represented Carson Hall in the preliminary rounds where he answered questions with his vast reservoir of trivia knowledge "It's stuff you can get off any Triv ial Pursuit box," he said The true triv ia was Mirante s spis iality. "I answered the ques tions that no one else knew,” he said. 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