Georgia Tech’s recent growth spurt is set to officially continue this week on the western fringes of campus.
School officials have scheduled a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday for the Curran Street Residence Hall project—the first traditional residence hall to be built on Georgia Tech’s campus in almost 50 years.
The project will join a multitude of new off-campus housing in highly amenitized buildings that have sprouted across Midtown and downtown over the past decade.
For Georgia Tech, it will continue a building spree that includes the expanded Science Square district, a football stadium expansion, and forthcoming Technology Square Phase 3 in Midtown.
Described as state-of-the-art, the Curran Street Residence Hall calls for 862 beds spread across eight residential floors for first-year students. Building features will include a 24-hour automated market, study rooms, e-gaming spaces, and a fitness center, per Georgia Tech officials.
How the Curran Street Residence Hall project will meet Northside Drive. Georgia Institute of Technology
The project's footprint between Eighth and Ninth streets on the western edge of campus. Georgia Institute of Technology
The project will rise from a site on the western edge of campus along Northside Drive, between Eighth and Ninth streets. Today that property—situated just south of The Interlock project’s second phase—is home to surface parking and little else.
It’ll be the first housing of any sort added on campus since 2005, when the 153-bed Tenth and Home complex opened along 10th Street to accommodate growing family-student and graduate enrollment.
All rooms in the 191,000-square-foot building will be made for double-occupancy, with group kitchens, community lounges, and collaborative learning spaces featured elsewhere, according to the school.
The residence hall will be geared toward accommodating Georgia Tech’s first-year enrollment growth over the next decade, while also housing students relocated during planned renovations to existing on-campus residential buildings.
Looking north at the Northside Drive site, at right, as seen in January 2023.Google Maps
School officials estimated the project will cost $117 million in 2023, when it was approved by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents. The construction schedule calls for opening the building in August 2026 for fall semester.
The new Northside Drive residential facility is considered an important piece of goals put forward in Georgia Tech’s emerging Comprehensive Campus Plan, which could continue to transform multiple areas of the school’s grounds.
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