Student Housing Planet

The game of musical buildings continues as Residential Life attempts to find buildings to use as first-year and sophomore-only dorms as part of the housing overhaul taking place this year. First-years will not be housed in the Southwest Residential Area towers starting next school year, according to Executive Director of Housing and Residential Life Edward [...]

(IAC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Inland American Real Estate Trust, Inc., has broken ground on the first phase of its newest on-campus project, Innovation Academic Village, on Arizona State University’s (ASU) Polytechnic Campus in Mesa, Ariz. This state-of-the-art student housing community and dining facility will be located adjacent to the campus core, the newly constructed [...]

Five acres in the heart of downtown — including the parcel containing PeaceHealth’s empty Eugene Clinic building — would be redeveloped with apartments for 1,200 college-age students, according to developers’ plans. The project would be built on mostly parking lots and feature more than 300 apartments in three connected five-story buildings and two parking garages. [...]

The Lincoln Townhomes are the newest edition to University Housing. It’s important to continue creating housing to allow more students to live on campus, but these townhomes target the wrong demographic. Instead of housing freshman and sophomores, the townhomes are reserved for juniors and seniors. According to Jeff Hale, the executive director of University Housing [...]

UNLV’s residence halls are currently at about 50 percent occupancy, but a new effort is aimed at bolstering traffic in — and revenue from — campus housing facilities. Student Union and Event Services (SUEC) now manages much of the dorm housing as public hotel space. And students (most from the William F. Harrah College of [...]

The University of California has been slowly expanding the use of private developers to build student housing over the last decade, authorizing seven such deals since 2000 at UC Irvine, UC Davis and UC Riverside. The growth of these partnerships in the Golden State is part of a national trend reported by The New York [...]

Transfer student and interior design major Chelsea Keith studies information about the TCU Recreation Center at Transfer Connections last year. The university registered 120 January transfer students this month, down from the record 173 students the university enrolled in January 2011. Dean of Admission Ray Brown said part of the reason for the lower rate [...]