It is the day before Thanksgiving and it is good to be home.\u00a0 It is interesting to see how big of a difference there is between urban Charleston and suburban Marietta.\u00a0 It is something I seem to always forget when I get home.\u00a0 Every time I fly home, I land in Atlanta, take the train to baggage claim and ride home with my dad to the suburbs.\u00a0 We don’t really pass through a city, because the airport is actually in College Park, Georgia and not Atlanta.\u00a0 When we return home, I leave the car, pick up my backpack and my suite case and walk in through the garage as always.\u00a0 There is no staircase to be climbed up, nor a key to open the door to my room.\u00a0 Things seem secure, but I know in reality that is just how we feel in suburbia.<\/p>\n
I wanted also talk about my trip to McLeod Plantation.\u00a0 Last Friday I went with a group of other students to go see the property McLeod Plantation which the College of Charleston is in it’s 90 day due diligence period on.\u00a0 Now I want to get a measure of how students feel and what they understand about the property itself.\u00a0 First, please be aware that all of the details of the contract that the College would sign to purchase the property can be found at http:\/\/giving.cofc.edu\/documents\/contract.pdf<\/a>.\u00a0 The property is for sale for the price of $4 million.\u00a0 Unlike what many reports claim, the property is 36.92 acres.\u00a0 This means the average price per acre for this property is approximately $108,108.\u00a0 Preliminary plans for Academic Programs for McLeod Plantation can be found at http:\/\/giving.cofc.edu\/documents\/preliminaryplans.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n From all of this I still have some questions that certainly concern me:<\/p>\n I am not judging the College on this, but I want to make sure that if we are purchasing property that we go through the thought process on every angle possible.\u00a0 I would hate to see the College spend $4 million on something that is not usable, useful, or successful.\u00a0 If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the property, please let me know so that I can pass these along to the administration.\u00a0 Any other information you may want to know about the property can be found at http:\/\/giving.cofc.edu\/foundation\/mcleodplantation.php<\/a>.<\/p>\n Have a happy and healthy Thanksgiving and feel free to leave any comments, questions or concerns.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ross<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is the day before Thanksgiving and it is good to be home.\u00a0 It is interesting to see how big of a difference there is between urban Charleston and suburban Marietta.\u00a0 It is something I seem to always forget when I get home.\u00a0 Every time I fly home, I land in Atlanta, take the train […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosskressel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n