Portland Press Herald - The contract for the project has been awarded to Alabama-based Capstone Development Partners, which specializes in student housing around the country and will be partnering with SMRT Architects in Portland. The project is expected to be the largest building project in USM’s history and is targeted for completion by the fall of 2022, the university said […]
CommonWealth Magazine - Having recently partnered with the University of Massachusetts Boston to plan, develop, and build the first residence hall in the history of the campus, I understand the concerns around the affordability of student housing, and recognize that in a city where the average rent is over $2,100 per month there is no “one-size-fits-all” solution to […]
Tampa Bay Times - The paint on Pinnacle Hall’s white-and-gold walls still smelled fresh as Lilly Myskey led a parade of parents and bins and bags down the hall toward her new room at the University of South Florida.
UChicago News - University announces plan for new residential hall and dining commons. Continuing efforts to enhance on-campus housing for College students, the University of Chicago plans to build a new residential hall and dining commons that will open in the 2020-21 academic year.
USF’s newest on-campus living community was fully opened Oct. 5 when scissors ceremoniously clipped away ribbon and formally introduced the first two residence halls, a dining facility, and a fitness facility.
CAPITOL HILL TIMES - Construction started in mid-May, but the official groundbreaking required the traditional shoveling of dirt. Construction of Seattle University’s 10-story student housing development started in mid-May, but shiny ceremonial shovels hit the dirt Tuesday at the East Madison site. “I like to do groundbreakings when we’ve already broken ground,” said Seattle University president Stephen Sundborg, S.J.
AMERICAN SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY - The University of Massachusetts Boston has broken ground on the first-ever student housing on campus—a $120 million, 260,000-square-foot residence hall. The university says the 1,077-bed residence hall will be available to first-year UMass Boston students, and is expected to open for the fall 2018 semester.
TAMPA BAY TIMES - For the last few years, student housing at the University of South Florida has functioned above capacity, unable to meet overwhelming demand. In a ceremony complete with Rocky the Bull and green-and-gold pom poms, USF System President Judy Genshaft revealed full-color renderings of the $134 million project USF hopes will alleviate that pressure — and transform the campus.
MULTIFAMILY EXECUTIVE - An expert in the student housing field, Capstone Development Partners hired Ankrom Moisan Architects to design a 20-story building that would reflect the culture of Cornish College of the Arts, a small private college dedicated to the visual and performing arts with two campuses in Seattle. Another goal for the new Cornish Commons building in the downtown South Lake Union neighborhood was to raise the architectural bar of the school’s buildings, since this was the first new one from the ground up since 1921.
PACIFIC NEWS - Ground preparation has already begun to set the stage for a new four-story residence hall north of the Calaveras River on the Stockton Campus. It is the first new residential construction project at Pacific since Monagan and Chan Family halls were completed in 2002. The 381-bed complex will eventually result in approximately 200 more beds, as the long-term plan calls for reducing the number of beds in some of the older existing housing facilities. It is part of a multi-phase master plan to enhance, renovate and repurpose student housing at University of the Pacific.