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Fordham University will begin construction on two new residence halls this spring in the space behind Alumni Court South and Martyrs' Court on the Rose Hill campus.
The two buildings will accommodate 460 students with a combination of four-person and six-person suites. The suites will be apartment-style with double and single rooms, full kitchens, full bathrooms, and individual room temperature control. The architects of the building, Sasaki Associates, Inc., designed the room configurations based on comments made by Fordham students regarding ideal living situations.
"In the spring of last year we administered a survey concerning residence halls," Christopher Rodgers, dean of Students at Fordham University, said in an interview. "The 800 respondents overwhelmingly asked for singles and double rooms in an apartment style setup."
The combination of singles and doubles in an apartment setting will allow students to share living space with their friends but, at the
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same time, allow them to have their own bedroom or share a bedroom with just one other roommate.
"We tried to maximize the number of singles we could get," Marc Valera, associate vice president for Facilities Management, said in an interview. "The new buildings will have close to 200 singles."
According to Valera, the new dorms will appeal to juniors and seniors-upperclassmen who would like the experience of apartment-living without having to move off-campus.
The University will break ground on the new buildings in late April or early May 2008. The expected completion of construction is June 2010, meaning that the residence halls should be open to student residents by the time Fordham's current freshmen are seniors.
The tentative name for the new residences is Campbell Hall in honor of Fordham alumnus Robert E. Campbell, CBA '55, and Joan M. Campbell, who together recently donated $10 million to the University.
Each of the seven-story buildings will have two towers and aseparate entrance. The combined space of the two buildings will cover 160,000 square feet. The southernmost building (closer to the Walsh Family Library) will be slightly larger than the other building, covering 90,000 square feet.
Instead of building one large, high-rise residential building, Fordham has opted for a two-building design with four distinct towers and a common ground-floor that connects the buildings. According to Valera, the idea behind this set-up is that it will foster smaller communities within the buildings, but at the same timekeep people connected.
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