Private developers spicing up student housing
Student housing developers are starting to include luxury apartment style amenities to lure student tenants.
After delays and debates, a proposal for Hopkins site
Developers plan a 12-story building on a long-vacant lot at St. Paul and 33rd streets owned by Johns Hopkins University, a site that had been the source of neighborhood controversy over a previous development plan.
UM student housing gets bridge loan
Greystone, a New York-based, national provider of multifamily and health care mortgage loans, announced it provided a $29.275 million bridge loan to The Enclave at 8700, a mixed-use student housing project in the 8700 block of U.S. Route 1, near the University of Maryland, College Park.
Md. college allows gender-neutral housing
ST. MARY’S CITY — A new open-housing policy at St. Mary’s College of Maryland now allows students of the opposite sex to be roommates. The Washington Post reports that students at the public liberal arts school must opt into the program. Students at the southern Maryland school with about 1,800 students this semester will not […]
UB student housing goes upscale
The lobby of The Varsity, a $22 million student apartment building in mid-town set to officially welcome its first tenants on Wednesday, has edgy art, sleek modern furniture and an array of small lights stretching from floor to ceiling that defy the usual grunge of most college digs.