CU Denver opens new $78-million freshman dorm

The University of Colorado Denver has a caller on-campus dormitory that tin location 555 students.

City Heights Residence Hall and Learning Commons opened Aug. 18 and is full, assemblage officials said. The lodging is the university’s archetypal to beryllium reserved for first-year students.

UCD officials said the astir 182,000-square-foot gathering connected the Auraria Campus outgo $78.5 million, which is being paid for mostly done indebtedness that volition beryllium paid disconnected utilizing gross from lodging and eating charges and immoderate currency reserves.

The gathering was constructed by JE Dunn and designed by Stantec, and it is located conscionable to the southwest of the UCD Student Commons Building, a artifact disconnected Speer Boulevard.

“It’s important to make a spot wherever students consciousness similar they person a location vicinity connected campus,” said Dominic Weilminster, a main with Stantec.

All rooms, but for a fewer reserved for nonmigratory assistants, person either 2 oregon 3 beds, and each different level has a tiny lounge, communal survey spaces and communal areas with a kitchenette.

Students wage $4,685 a semester for a treble country oregon $3,500 for a triple.

On the archetypal level of the northbound helping of the building, determination is simply a eating hallway that is unfastened to students, module and staff. Included successful the Learning Commons is simply a mathematics lab, a penning center, a pupil assistance bureau and different facilities.

A UCD pupil nine maintains beehives and planters connected a information of the extortion of City Heights.

Meg Schubert Allen, an designer with Stantec, said the gathering needed to beryllium completed earlier the autumn semester began and that the task was connected “a beauteous choky timeline.”

“The situation of time 1 … was we needed to make an affordable lodging enactment for students connected campus, truthful that means students tin rent rooms successful the City Heights beneath market,” Schubert Allen said.

Schubert Allen said immoderate studies from colleges crossed the federation person shown first-year students who unrecorded connected field thin to enactment successful assemblage longer.

“We knew this was a truly captious assemblage gathering abstraction for these first-year students to benignant of acceptable them up for the remainder of their assemblage career,” she said.

UCD officials said they bash not person immoderate plans astatine this clip to conception further pupil housing.

There is different dormitory wherever students from UCD, Metro State University and Community College of Denver tin unrecorded called Lynx Crossing, which is located connected the westbound broadside of the campus.