UVa Launches Developer-Led Student Housing Project

The College of Virginia will use a developer-led design-build group to assemble three new residential buildings totaling 310,000 sq ft in Charlottesville. Capstone Improvement Companions will lead the university-financed venture, which might be designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects and constructed by a joint-venture group of Hoar Development of McLean, Va., and Richmond, Va.-based Hourigan.

Scheduled to be accomplished for the autumn time period of 2027, the advanced of apartment-style models will home roughly 780 higher class college students within the Emmet Ivy Hall, a 14.5-acre gateway that already features a lodge/convention middle and several other educational buildings. Along with the three five- to six-story residential buildings, the venture will embody a 19,000-sq-ft eating and retail part.

The brand new housing is one among a number of initiatives being pursued beneath a 10-year university-wide plan launched in 2019 to boost amenities, pupil providers and analysis packages. As a part of a aim to ultimately home all first- and second-year college students on campus, the Emmet Ivy advanced will complement the Gaston and Ramazani Homes, a two-building, $114-million venture accomplished in 2024 by the group of Elkus Manfredi and Barton Malow Builders.

Different notable development initiatives embody the $60-million, 61,000-sq-ft Faculty of Information Science, additionally situated within the Emmet Ivy Hall and accomplished in 2024 by Gilbane Constructing Co. That very same 12 months, the college celebrated the reopening of its library following a Skanska-led $141-million renovation.