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.
BOSTON GLOBE - In a first for the bustling commuter school, the University of Massachusetts Boston expects to open a 1,000-student dormitory complex on its Columbia Point campus in September 2018, university officials said Thursday. “This is a major milestone in the history of UMass Boston and a significant accomplishment for the university as a whole,” said Martin Meehan, president of the university system, in a statement.
BIRMINGHAM, AL - Capstone Development Partners, (www.capdevpartners.com) (“CDP”), in conjunction with the University of North Alabama ("UNA"), celebrated the completion of Olive and Mattielou residence halls with a dedication ceremony and ribbon cutting ceremony.
CORNISH COMMONS, CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS - Voted the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce’s Building of the Year in 2015, Cornish Commons is a 20-story mixed-used, high-rise structure providing more than 430 beds of housing and nearly 17,000 sf of academic space for Cornish College of the Arts.
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA - Marking an important step in the University of South Florida’s plans to build a transformational new housing village on campus, the Florida Board of Governors today approved plans to enter into a public-private partnership (P3), with Capstone-Harrison Street, LLC (partnership of Capstone Development Partners, LLC and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital), kicking off the estimated $133 million development that will eventually be home to more than 2,000 students.
THE TAMPA TRIBUNE - There are rusty sinks and tiny communal showers. The rooms always seem too hot or too cold. The carpets have mysterious stains, and the tiny windows do little to mitigate the harsh fluorescent lighting. But for freshmen Anastasia Akimova,18, and Yu Maeda, 20, along with some 1,000 other students at the University of South Florida, the Andros dorms are home — at least for the semester.
BIRMINGHAM, AL - Capstone Development Partners and Cornish College of the Arts held a ribbon cutting ceremony on August 27th to celebrate the grand opening of Cornish Commons, a new residence hall which also includes academic and administrative space and a student life center.
CIRCULATE SAN DIEGO - The MOVE Alliance is pleased to announce its endorsement of 5030 College Avenue Apartments, the proposed Capstone Development Partners student housing project in the College Area. The project provides housing close to the San Diego State University campus in a walkable, bikeable, transit-oriented, urban infill location.
CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS - At 4:15 p.m. today, President Nancy Uscher and Capstone Development Partners principal Bruce McKee cut the red ribbon to open Cornish Commons, the latest addition to the Cornish College of the Arts' campus. Following are President Uscher's remarks on this historic occasion. My dear friends: Today we are making history. The new Cornish Commons is the first ground up building at Cornish since Kerry Hall was built in 1921. When Nellie Cornish opened up her piano studio in 1914, six years before women had the right to vote in the United States, she had an audacious dream to invent a new kind of school, one that would link the arts to the best thinking about education and innovation. She was a maverick and had tremendous impact on her students and the communities of her time – in Seattle, in the country and even across the Atlantic Ocean – which in her era was a world away.
THE CARDINAL AT WEST CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - This category of the Innovator Award in Best Architecture is awarded to the best architecture and design in a 300-bed or more project that proves best how project blends form and function; fits into the campus fabric and how the project uses green features to both serve the mission of the college/university as a forward-thinking institution as well as achieve operations and management cost savings.