UH’s innovative new dorm nurtures fledgling entrepreneurs
By The Honolulu Star-Advertiser
August 16, 2023
…Such ambition and ideas are part of what founders of RISE are hoping to see grow across the expected 374 UH students who will live in this first-in-Hawaii residential hub for student entrepreneurship, opening this week after more than six years of planning and construction…
…University officials said they believe RISE to be the state’s first true public-private partnership, or “P3,” in that it was built with private funding and no taxpayer money.
UH and the University of Hawaii Foundation worked with bond issuer Public Finance Authority and El Paso, Texas-based Hunt Development Group to design, build and finance the project at the former site of Atherton YMCA…
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