The housing complex will be built along Herald Avenue, directly across from the Cintas Center. The new building should help alleviate the waiting list for campus housing. The new student housing community will provide 273 private bedrooms in two, three and four bedroom apartment units, with space also provided for student development programming, living units for staff, laundry facilities, parking lot and a landscaped area. Apartments will be fully furnished, cable-ready and have connections to the University's existing data system. Birmingham-based Capstone Development Corp. was selected by Xavier to develop the apartments.
Capstone is a developer of student housing across the country.
Demarest and Associates of Dallas, Texas is the design architect, with Birmingham-based Capstone Building Corp. serving as the general contractor. Leland Keller, Vice President of Capstone's On-Campus Division, is serving as the development manager for the project. The complex will increase total campus housing to nearly 1,900 beds. About 40 percent of Xavier's approximately 4,000 undergraduates live on campus. About 87 percent of the incoming freshmen, the class of 2004, will live on campus.