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...outside of the state. Determined to make N.Y.U. "a resident university rather than a commuter university," Hester now has 1,600 staff members and 5,000 students living near the main campus in Greenwich Village. For additional faculty and student residences, two towering apartment buildings by Architect I. M. Pei are nearly finished (a third will be a commercial co-op). N.Y.U. is more than halfway through a $100 million fund drive, has hired Architects Philip Johnson and Richard Foster to unify the Village campus by face lifting old buildings and designing new ones...
...plans for the complex are not yet definite--architect I.M. Pei will make the first land-use drawings only this month. But sources close to Pei have said that he is considering a mixed-use plan...
...Pei has made public his desire to build a memorial appropriate to an urban area and his reluctance to use most of the 12-acre site for a park or plaza. He has said that controlled commercial development on the site is "quite important" to his plans for the complex...
Under one mixed-use plan, Pei might design office buildings to be built upon the memorial site, the MBTA yards across Boylston Street from Eliot House. Income from renting the upper stories to businesses would offset the cost of renting the ground floors cheaply to student organizations and local stores...
...sources emphasized that no such plan has been decided upon, and denied magazine stories that the mixed-use idea was definite. At present, Pei intends to draw plans for the library within a year...