UNC-Chapel Hill plans to open a new residence hall in 2028, which is the first new dorm since 2006.
The UNC-Chapel Hill Board announced the call of a new residence hall at a meeting of Wednesday.
It will be between Stacy Residence Hall and Cobb Residence Hall at the northern end of the town, in the present place of Jackson. A 83 -year -old Jackson Hall, which has a bachelor’s bureau, will be demolished to start the project.
Planned Places of UNC-Chapel Hill Residence Hall.
The new dormitory is expected to have 600-700 students and is expected to cost $ 93 million. The University plans to start construction in 2026.
“It will be in a terrible location in the heart of the North Town,” UN Chancellor Lee Roberts said Thursday. – We are happy with that.
This project is just one of the many improvements to the university, “The Portfolio of Carolina’s Bachelor’s and Master’s Bachelor’s and Master’s Bachelor’s Bachelor’s and Master’s Housing,” News & Observer from UNC media relationships said.
Roberts also told reporters on Thursday that renovation in Avery’s residence hall, which took place since 2024. End, approaching the end.
Roberts said more UN students live in a dormitory.
Twenty -nine percent of UN students live in residence halls, according to January. The report to the Governors Council, which details the housing rate of each institution in the UN system. However, about half of all undergraduate students live in UN residential halls.
“But as everyone who goes to school knows, some of our homes are quite old,” Roberts told reporters. “Because housing is always aging and demanding renovation, we also have a duty to look for new housing.”
Planned Places of UNC-Chapel Hill Residence Hall.
Based on her statement N & O, the university is still looking for a new place for a bachelor’s admissions.
“Thank you on behalf of the students. I think this is the beginning of a new plan to modernize our home, and finally allows us to catch up with our colleagues’ institutions,” said Aldolf Alvarez, president of the UN student organization, who also works as a member of the trustee board.
Increase in acceptance, concern for housing
The announcement occurs with the increasing reception of the UN. In the latest class entered to the university, there were record 73 192 contenders, and 5,624 of them were accepted and included, contributing to the university’s 7.7% of the 2020 increase in the university.
The UN has not yet released new students in the 2025-2026 school year.
Roberts wants the university to continue to grow. January At the meeting of the Board of Trustees, he announced that the UN would open 500 additional time for students to admit 2025.
N&O reported that Roberts was about to increase the university’s bachelor’s degree in 5,000 students over the next decade.
As the admission increases, some UN students expressed concern about the availability of students after the first year, the Daily Tar heel said.
Freshmen require a living in a university town except for some exceptions. Since students with a higher amount of credit receive the second priority for the second priority, it is often the least likely that the assignment of housing receives a home, the newspaper said.
One student wrote a column “Daily Tar Heel” and equated the Housing Process UNC with the Survivor game show.
In June last year, the university asked some students to voluntarily abandon their home tasks to volunteer to buy more rooms for incoming freshmen, the Daily Tar Heel said. If enough students were not going to move to another residence hall, the newspaper said, the university said he would use the lottery system to replace the dwelling.
Students are voluntarily sufficient, so the lottery system was not used.
Additional UN Construction Projects
The UNC will also continue to demolish the remaining buildings in the village of Odum, and its long -term deported bachelor, graduate and family housing, built in the 1960s.
The demolition of 47 buildings in Odum Village began in 2016. Due to the inability to meet fire safety standards. Evan Yassky, the UN Executive Director of Equipment Planning and Design, said he had been more economical demolition of unused dormitories rather than renovating them, the UN Media Hub said.
However, the project was not completed due to insufficient funding, said Yassky Wednesday’s trustee council meeting. More than 20 buildings remain.
According to UNC Media Hub, only three buildings in the village of Odum still use the university, one of which is the Carolina Veterans Resources Center. The University is “actively trying to move” the center, ”said UN media relations in a report.
The other two buildings are used by the UN police and contractors to build Steven D. Bell Hall, which is planned to be completed by the end of this year, the university said.
Yassky hopes to demolish 20 more buildings “Around 2025”.