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UniversityParent’s “Best for Parents” Off to Strong Start

November 30, 2015

This month, UniversityParent launched an innovative new tool that allows companies to demonstrate their commitment to the crucial but unnamed stakeholders in student housing: parents. The idea for the tool was born to UniversityParent’s founder and CEO Sarah Schupp about a year ago at the InterFace Student Housing Conference in Austin, Texas. “I was leading…

GMH Builds Steam in Return to Student Housing

November 20, 2015

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One of the first companies to forge the student housing frontier is making steady strides toward a new horizon. GMH Capital Partners was the largest student housing owner in the nation before selling its entire portfolio to American Campus Communities in 2008 for $1.4 billion. Prior to exiting the market, GMH had more than 60,000 student beds in…

Weekly Roundup of Student Housing News

November 18, 2015

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Here’s what’s happening in student housing… Fayetteville, Ark.—Greystar Awarded Management near University of Arkansas Greystar Student Living has been awarded management over Fountain Residential Partners’ Beechwood Village. The 670-bed housing community was designed by Modus Studio to be a modern, cottage-style community arranged around a central park. Beechwood Village sits within one mile of the University of Arkansas.…

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November 11, 2015

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Here’s what’s happening in student housing… Tempe, Ariz.—ACC Breaks Ground on Engineering Live-Learn Facility at ASU American Campus Communities broke ground on Tuesday on the sixth of its student housing facilities at Arizona State University in Tempe. The $120 million project will function as a live-learn facility for students of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.…

Weekly Roundup of Student Housing News

November 4, 2015

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Here’s what’s happening in student housing… Minneapolis—Opus Group Completes Three New Developments The Opus Group has finished construction on three new luxury student housing complexes: ArborBLU of Ann Arbor, Mich.; The Foundry of Ames, Iowa; and District Flats of Columbia, Mo. Each development sits close to a major university and features upscale amenities such as garage parking,…

Springfield Student Housing Reaches New Heights

October 30, 2015

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The title for biggest student housing development on the block is currently hotly contested in Springfield, Mo., where two large scale projects are underway to increase off-campus housing. The first is the largest new project in decades to rise in the downtown area. In their new development, Aspen Springfield, Aspen Heights is constructing four, five-story…

ACH Awarded Management over Two New Facilities

October 28, 2015

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San Luis Obispo, Calif. and San Marcos, Texas The nation’s largest third-party management company according to their website, Asset Campus Housing (ACH), has expanded its managed portfolio again this week with two new properties: Mustang Village of San Luis Obispo, and The Reserve at West Avenue of San Marcos, Texas. Both off-campus student housing complexes…

MJW Investments Acquires 3-Property Collection at MSU

October 22, 2015

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MJW Investments expanded its student housing portfolio again this month with the purchase of the Campus View Collection, a Class A, 195-bed student housing facility. The three-property, three-building community sits within one block of Michigan State University’s campus in East Lansing, Mich. This is the California-based real estate company’s second acquisition at MSU. “We love…

Weekly Roundup of Student Housing News

October 21, 2015

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Here’s what’s happening in student housing … San Marcos, Texas—New Luxury Development Planned for The Preiss Company, Stonemont Financial Stonemont Financial Group and The Preiss Company announced plans to develop and complete Ella Lofts, a 252-bed student housing community within walking distance to Texas State campus. It replaces former efforts by another developer to build 817…

Three New Developments on the Horizon

October 15, 2015

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Three developers in three different states reached early milestones in their student housing projects this week. One announced plans, another earned approval, and a third acquired a site and made ready to break ground. Des Moines, Iowa — New Development Proposed for Mercy College’s Increased Numbers Newbury Living of Des Moines, Iowa announced plans to purchase…

Weekly Roundup of Student Housing News

October 14, 2015

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Roxbury, Maxx. – Parcel 3 Meets Resistance with Roxbury Development Parcel 3’s plans to build new student housing on a Lower Roxbury site was met with skepticism from neighborhood residents this week at a city council meeting. The project would house students of Northeastern University. Similar attempts have been shot down in recent years due…

Weekly Roundup of Student Housing News

October 7, 2015

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Here’s what’s happening in student housing… Medford, Mass.—Tufts Reaches Maximum Capacity for On-Campus Housing A steady increase in freshman class size and transfer students has led to a housing shortage at Tufts University. There are currently only 12 available beds out of 3,000 in on campus housing units, most of which are in double occupancy rooms. Athens,…