Sort of like Warren Towers. Sort of.
Off-campus housing projects are going upscale, according to this story.
Some of the student housing being built include ones with loft- and villa-like settings, private bedrooms and baths, professional-style kitchens with granite countertops, weekly housecleaning services, plasma-screen TVs, wireless and high-speed Internet connections in every room, fitness centers, swimming pools, even hot tubs and tanning booths.
“The hot tub is my favorite part,” says Weston Selman, 20, a biomedical science major at Texas A&M University.
I’m not sure how this type of housing differs from the typical upscale apartment complex; I guess the developers market their buildings to students, only. There’s no written agreements between colleges and developers, it’s just typical off-campus housing. Well, not typical, I guess.
Source: Souped-Up Student Housing – By Camille Sweeney, The New York Times