“In talking with our students, it was obvious that they cherished the residence hall experience and living on campus; however, by their senior year, they were also looking for the independence that an apartment provides," says Wofford Trustee Mike Brown ’76. "I could only imagine how special it would have been my senior year sitting out on my front porch with the friends I had made – hanging out and enjoying the memories and getting excited about the ones to come in my own campus house.”     

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Imagine the best kind of neighborhood where a college senior could live — a place where there is a sense of community built around interesting residential architecture, front porches, bicycle and pedestrian-friendly streets, shops, outdoor recreation, and “hang out places.” It’s the “new urban” kind of place that Richard Florida has described in a series of books, most recently Cities and the Creative Class, where the three Ts (technology, talent, and tolerance) take root and flourish.