The millennial generation attended college in a golden era for student housing, as investors poured money into luxurious off-campus communities packed with resort-style amenities: rooftop pools, golf simulators, tanning beds, climbing walls.<\/p>\n
The wow factor increased with every new development. Many universities amped up their campus dorms and amenities in an effort to bolster recruitment, with a few going so far as to put in \u201clazy rivers\u201d for floating around pools.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was crazy to see what was going to beat the last new thing,\u201d said Dan Oltersdorf, a senior vice president and chief learning officer at Campus Advantage, which manages about 70 off-campus student housing communities around the country. \u201cYou were just asking, what\u2019s next?\u201d<\/p>\n
But as millennials move on and so-called Generation Z moves in, student housing is shifting away from recreational dazzle and toward amenities that reflect the gig economy: digital conveniences, ample spaces indoors and out for studying and collaborating, and cutting-edge fitness facilities to maintain wellness.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cShared study rooms, a pickup spot for Uber and GrubHub, Amazon lockers \u2014 this is the \u2018everything at your fingertips\u2019 generation.\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/hID8S7Wnir<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) June 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n