UNC-Chapel Hill plans to open a new residence hall in 2028, its first new hostel in 2006.
The UNC-Chapel Hill Board Advice has announced the site on what is being called on New Residence Hall 1 at a Wednesday meeting.
It will be located between the Stacey Residence Hall and the Cobss Residence at the northern end of the campus, at the current Jackson Hall site. In order to start the project, 83-year-old Jackson Hall, which houses the bachelor’s office office, will be demolished.
The location of the planned Residence Hall of UNC-Chapel Hill.
The new hostel is expected to be housed from 600 to 700 students and is expected to cost $ 93 million. The university plans to start construction in 2026.
“It will be in a great place right there in the heart of the North Campus,” UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts said on Thursday. “We are excited about it.”
This project is just one of the many improvements to the Housing in “The University’s Decade Plan for the Expansion and Renewal of Carolina’s Bachelor’s and Genuctor’s Bachelor’s Portfolio”, according to a statement to News & Observer by Media Relations.
Roberts also told reporters on Thursday that the upgrade at the Avery Residence Hall, which has been going on since the end of 2024, is an approaching completion.
Roberts said he wanted more from UNC students to live in the hostels.
Twenty -nine percent of UNC students live in the halls of the residence, according to a report to the Council of Governors in January, describing the details of the housing frequency of each institution in the UNC system. However, approximately half of all students live in UNC’s residence halls.
“But like everyone who goes to school here, some of our homes are quite old,” Roberts told reporters. “Because the home is always aging and requires repair, we also have an obligation to look at the construction of new homes.”
The location of the planned Residence Hall of UNC-Chapel Hill.
The university is still looking for a new place for the admission of students, according to his statement to N&M.
“On behalf of the students, thank you. I think this is the beginning of a new plan to modernize our home and finally allows us to catch up with our partner institutions,” said UNC student body president Aldolfo Alvarez, who also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees.
Increasing enrollment, home concerns
The message comes with an increase in UNC acceptance. The last class that entered the university had a record 73 192 candidates, and 5,624 of them were accepted and enrolled, contributing to the increase of 7.7% to registering the university after 2020.
UNC has not yet released the number of new students enrolled for the school year 2025-2026.
Roberts wants the university to continue to grow. He announced at a Board of Trustees’ meeting in January that the UNC will open 500 additional students for admission students in 2025.
N & O reported that Roberts intends to increase university students to increase 5,000 students over the next decade.
With the increase in enrollment, some UNC students have expressed concerns about the existence of housing for students after their first year, the Daily Tar Heel reports.
The freshmen are required to live on the campus, with some exceptions. As students with a larger amount of loans receive a second priority, sophomores are often the least likely to receive a housing task, the newspaper reports.
A student wrote a column at the Daily Tar Heel and likened the process of housing in the UNC of the Survivor game.
Last June, the University asked some students to voluntarily give up their housing tasks for the coming year to provide more rooms for incoming freshmen, the Daily Tar Heel reports. If enough students have not volunteered to move to another residence hall, according to the newspaper, the university said it would use a lottery system to reassign housing.
Enough students got involved voluntarily so that the lottery system was not used.
Additional construction projects for UNC
UNC will also continue to destroy the other buildings in the village of Dodum, his longtime student, who also graduated from family home, built in the 1960s.
The destruction of 47 buildings in the village of Dodum began in 2016 due to their inability to meet fire safety standards. Evan Yaski, CEO of UNC for planning and designing facilities, said it was more rated to demolish unused hostels rather than update them, UNC reports.
However, the project has not been completed due to insufficient funding, Yaski said at the Board of Trustees on Wednesday. More than 20 buildings remain.
Only three buildings in the village of Dodum are still used by the university, one of which is the Carolina Resource Center, according to UNC Media Hub. The University “actively works to relocate” to the center, says links to UNC media in a statement to N&M.
The other two buildings are used by the UNC police and the contractors to build Steven D. Bell Hall, which is due to end by the end of this year, the university said.
Yaski hopes to knock down another 20 buildings “Approximately by the end of 2025”