UVa Launches Developer-Led Student Housing Project
Scheduled to be completed for the fall term of 2027, the complex of apartment-style units will house approximately 780 upper class students in the University of Virginia's Emmet Ivy Corridor.
The University of Virginia will use a developer-led design-build team to construct three new residential buildings totaling 310,000 sq ft in Charlottesville. Capstone Development Partners will lead the university-financed project, which will be designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects and constructed by a joint-venture team of Hoar Construction of McLean, Va., and Richmond, Va.-based Hourigan.
Scheduled to be completed for the fall term of 2027, the complex of apartment-style units will house approximately 780 upper class students in the Emmet Ivy Corridor, a 14.5-acre gateway that already includes a hotel/conference center and several academic buildings. In addition to the three five- to six-story residential buildings, the project will include a 19,000-sq-ft dining and retail component.
The new housing is one of several initiatives being pursued under a 10-year university-wide plan launched in 2019 to enhance facilities, student services and research programs. As part of a goal to eventually house all first- and second-year students on campus, the Emmet Ivy complex will complement the Gaston and Ramazani Houses, a two-building, $114-million project completed in 2024 by the team of Elkus Manfredi and Barton Malow Builders.
Other notable construction projects include the $60-million, 61,000-sq-ft School of Data Science, also located in the Emmet Ivy Corridor and completed in 2024 by Gilbane Building Co. That same year, the university celebrated the reopening of its library following a Skanska-led $141-million renovation.