With the main entrance on Cecil B. Moore Ave., the new building will look and work like two separate units. A covered walkway will shield residents as they enter the building. Continuing the University's efforts to make residence halls more appealing, the top two floors will feature 140 apartment-style units. The remaining three floors will have 188 suite-style housing units. The building will also feature 25 resident adviser units, lounges for every house, laundry rooms on each floor and a convenience store.
Plans are also underway to create a snack bar accessible from the street on the ground-floor level.
To increase the building's flexibility, all of the lower-level suites can be converted to apartments. In anticipation of the start of construction, residents of Cooney Hall have been shifted to other facilities, with some living elsewhere on campus and a large number moved to the Presidential Apartments on City Line Avenue. Temple is running a full shuttle service between the Presidential and the University. Jay Falkenstein, associate vice president for facilities management at Temple, added that the new hall should help recruit students. Every bed we build represents a new enrollment to Temple.