The Princeton review has ranked George Washington University as having the 12th best college dorms in the country, even with the school running at full capacity. To meet increasing demand for on campus housing, GWU has announced a $130 million construction project that should house another 850 students. The board of trustees voted on a structure located on the H street and 21st street junction at their Foggy Bottom campus.
The proposed 64,000 square foot building will also provide areas for student recreation and activities as well as the possibility for ground floor retail space. “This type of housing further enhances George Washington’s community building goals,” Peter Konwerski, senior associate provost and dean of student affairs, said in a statement. “These academic-residential communities facilitate even stronger connections between our students involved in co-curricular clubs and organizations, undergraduate research opportunities and community service activities.”
The new building is estimated to join with current resident structures, Crawford, Schenly and West End by the fall quarter of 2016. Official applications for construction and funding of the project will be sent once plans are finalized. Partial approval has already be given as part of the Foggy Bottom Campus Plan that was passed in 2007. If all goes well, the building will break ground summer of next year. Once finished the rooms will be use for 2nd and 3rd year students as well as temporary faculty housing.
As part of the Foggy Bottom campus renovations, the area will be seeing an increase in development as well as some deconstruction. The university has plans on removing town-homes which current reside at the 2100 block of Pennsylvania Ave and developing a 11 story 250,000 square foot office building. This Thursday will be the groundbreaking for a new 35,000 square foot building that will serve as the new home of Washington’s Textile Museum and the universities fine art collection.