Johnson & Wales University deals with consequences of growth

Fifteen years ago, Johnson & Wales University gambled on an abandoned hospital and an eight-acre parcel of land in a run-down section of North Miami. Today, the school has more than tripled the size of its North Miami campus and is helping to turn around a neighborhood that had long been crippled by crime and poverty. Johnson & Wales now owns 10 buildings and 25 acres in the area. Later this year, it is set to break ground on a 42,000-square-foot facility that will house its hospitality school. Enrollment has swelled from about 80 students in 1993 to 2,000. The school's master plan shows it intends to continue expanding. The university is dealing with some of the controversy that occurs when lower-income families are displaced by growth.

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