US & Canada

Development can proceed on an expansive student housing complex at Vancouver Island University. Funded almost entirely by the provincial government, the roughly $88 million complex would host 266 student beds as well as support services, amenity spaces and food options.

The University of Texas System Board of Regents has given UT its blessing to negotiate agreements to build an estimated $145 million, 1,000-bed undergraduate student housing complex at the site where another university development houses about a fifth that number of student beds.

More student housing is set to be built in Clemson after the City of Clemson planning commission approved a planned-use development for a new apartment building on Keowee Trail during its meeting on Feb. 12. The new development, as planned, will contain over 1300 beds, primarily student housing.

Aptitude Development, a leading student housing developer with a decade of experience, is excited to announce the imminent groundbreaking of The Marshall Tempe, a transformative student housing project set to redefine student living near Arizona State University.

LV Collective has announced plans to develop a 299-unit student housing development at 8133 Baltimore Ave. near the University of Maryland campus in the Lakeland neighbourhood of College Park.

With a goal to expand residential housing for students, UC Santa Barbara continues to advance on a development plan that will create 3,500 new student beds on the main campus, in accordance with the targets highlighted in the university’s 2010 Long Range Development Plan (LRDP).

Rael Development Corp. has started construction on Charme on Georgia Ave., a 250-unit, 636-bed student housing project in Statesboro, Ga., according to Grice Connect. Scheduled to come online next fall, the $61 million development will serve the Georgia Southern University.

In a deal that immediately adds as many as 890 beds to the university’s student housing stock, the University of Toronto has purchased a 20 per cent stake in the privately owned CampusOne residence located adjacent to the St. George campus.

Landmark Properties has begun construction on The Standard at Los Angeles, located at 3900 S Figueroa St. a few blocks south of the University of Southern California (USC) campus in Los Angeles.

Construction of the newest student living complex adjacent to the Georgia Southern University’s campus is underway at the former University Plaza, across from Dingus MaGee’s and Centennial Place.