“Why students would head to these multi million dollar complexes has me baffled..”
Perhaps they are the “Public Private Partnerships” that are the rage- To the detriment of no one except the poor kids that are going into debt for the rest of their lives in exchange for a degree.
I think what happened is out of town money came in with cheap money. The locals said WTF and found out how to get in on the cheap money gravy train as well.