[Fumblerooskies]

http://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=13208&NewsID=198

LU Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. announces land acquisition
September 7, 2007

by Ron Brown
Liberty Journal

An Arizona real estate development firm has agreed to donate Lynchburg’s The Plaza shopping center to Liberty University, Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. said Friday.

Falwell’s announcement came during convocation at LU’s Vines Center.

“Our target closing date is Sept. 30,” Falwell Jr. said.

The Plaza’s 42-acre site and its 467,000 square feet of buildings have an assessed tax value of $11.7 million. The shopping center’s current owner, Sandor Development Co. of Scottsdale, Ariz., has signed the agreement formalizing the donation.

[Sly Fox]

I admit I didn't see this coming. What will we do with this property? Its far enough away from the mountain to generate some fun speculation.

[LUconn]

the plaza!!! hahahahhahaha. We are now you're landlord WLNI!

[Fumblerooskies]

I would NOT want to place a med school in that part of town. I suspect a lot of the auxiliary services which are not necessary to on-campus life (like DLP) might be relocated there...but that is a sizable tract of land, to say the least.
I suggest the English/Lit. Department would be a good fit

[LUconn]

Let's be serious now. That place has had a bulldozer coming for a long time. Let's put it out of it's misery.

[bigsmooth]

it would be a great spot for a med school. close to baptist and general. it has possibilities though.

[Fumblerooskies]

it would be a great spot for a med school. close to baptist and general. it has possibilities though.

Great thought..and one I obviously had not thought of. I'm just not a big fan of that part of town...but a Med School could do wonders for cleaning it up. Besides, I don't think MCV is in the best part of Richmond.

[bigsmooth]

a med school could enchance the area and possibly investors would buy some of the older homes and renovate them. plus a med school would bring other amenities closer to that part of town.

[givemethemic]

Jerry.Jr just said that they are going to move offices over there and that will help out with the parking problem...

[TDDance234]

It will be DLP Offices for the most part, I believe. Perhaps some admissions counselors will be stationed there, as well.

[thepostman]

Great idea to move the DLP offices over there...once i heard about this I thought that right way...they should hire me to be an advisor! haha...jk

I think we will be buying the River Ridge Mall once the open air mall opens....that place will need to sell to someone

[LUconn]

true, once we get RR after it tanks can you imagine what the campus would be like if that stupid railroad track wasn't there?

[SuperJon]

Oh how I would've loved to be the appraiser on this one.

[Cider Jim]

I suggest the English/Lit. Department would be a good fit

Fumble, you really have missed your calling: you should do stand up comedy. Too bad they couldn't have thrown in Miller Park. We can always use more ball fields and another swimming pool.

[jcmanson]

Where exactly is this located? I'm not familiar with it.

[LUconn]

right off of Memorial Ave behind the library. Actually right accross the street from EC Glass. You may know it as that run down place where the "other" movie theatre is.

[thepostman]

that "other" movie theatre is so much nicer then the mall theatre (not saying much), but it is...

[LUconn]

oh I love that one and would always choose it over the mall. But it just doesnt get the good movies.

[mrmacphisto]

This is an interesting development. There is currently a church in the Plaza that meets in the old J.Crew Clearance Store location. The place has been completely renovated on the inside and the building also hosts a late-night coffee shop/gathering place for 20 and 30-somethings during the school year. I wonder what will become of all that.

[Fumblerooskies]

I suggest the English/Lit. Department would be a good fit

Too bad they couldn't have thrown in Miller Park. We can always use more ball fields and another swimming pool.

Miller Park...good thought. The gang activity would change to those Hawthorne toting hoodlums against the Poe thugs. What a sight that would be, but alas...All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

[shukcb04]

anything Liberty does with that dump will be an improvement.

[flameshaw]

"In the old days" that was the "only" place to shop........................ literally.

[TIMSCAR20]

FYI, shameless plug, I get Jerry Jr on the halftime show tomorrow on TV. I am sure this will come up. Maybe.

[Cider Jim]

For the record, Scar, who is taller--you or JJ?

[ALUmnus]

I wondered about that church as well. That's a situation that will require a great deal of wisdom and tact, which junior seems to exhibit in great quantities.