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Ground Broken On Student Apartment Complex
Work is now officially underway on a first-ever apartment complex marketed specifically for students of Carl Sandburg College.

College officials along with those from Quad Cities-based Oxbow Development and the bank financing the seven-million dollar project broke ground on "The Villas at CSC" Tuesday, to be located on the site of the former Holiday Inn or Regency hotels on North Henderson Street.

The plan has been met with much criticism and some opposition from residents since the city council approved it just last week, but Mayor Sal Garza says that's okay.

"There's time we find ourselves maybe at odds, but please know at the end of whatever process that we're engaged in, this is going to be the result," Garza said. "We are very much like a family, we have our good days, but then we have our better days."

Carl Sandburg College president Lori Sundberg says in the end, this is a project that the community needs.

"This groundbreaking is happening because our community worked together for a common cause," she said. "And that cause was to support the college, our students, but to also support our community. Today is a great day for Galesburg."

The Villas at CSC is slated to be open next fall. It's being built, officials say, in order to help a growing student population that is coming from outside the 10-county CSC district, but also those within the district who may live far away from the Galesburg campus.






(WGIL News Story and Photos by Will Stevenson)
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