Plans are underway to build more student housing in Guelph
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More student housing is coming to Guelph, Ont.
Plans are underway for a new student residence at the University of Guelph built specifically for first-year students.
The new residence, the first on the university’s main campus in 25 years, will be located near College Avenue West and McGilvray Street at the west end of the campus. The project will consist of two buildings with space for approximately 1,500 students.
“The largest demand for (student) residence is first-year students,” said Bryon Sheldrik, the university’s associate VP of academics.
“That is part of (the student’s) transition to university life. They are looking for that residence experience.”
The new residence will be fully accessible and have all the amenities that students need.
“It will have its own food facility, meeting rooms, multi-purpose rooms, the kind of things that first-year students would require to build that community,” said Ed Townsley, associate VP of ancillary services.
Both Sheldrik and Townsley said the cost of building the new residence will be around $275 million.
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