Groundbreaking for a $23.8-million, 118,000-square-foot residence hall at Minnesota State University, Mankato is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 23.
The ceremony will be at 10 a.m. in the parking lot next to Carkoski Commons, the dining hall on the northwest sector of campus. Legislators, Minnesota State Mankato President Richard Davenport and other administrators will participate, and students, faculty, staff and the public are invited.
The new residence hall will be a four-story, semi-suite-style facility that will accommodate 300 students when completed in 2012.
In keeping with the university’s strategic priority for a sustainable, pedestrian-friendly campus, it will be built next to the McElroy Residence Community, connected by classrooms, the First Year Experience office and gathering spaces.
It will be the second new residence hall on the Minnesota State Mankato campus in the last two years.
The 608-bed Julia Sears Residence Community opened in 2008, earning immediate praise from students for its two-bedroom “semi-suite” floor plan, 10-foot ceilings and large windows with sweeping views of the campus mall and the Minnesota River bluffs.
As in Julia A. Sears Hall, the new residence hall will have bedrooms with individually controlled air conditioning and heating, tile floors and sound-resistant walls, loftable beds, dressers and desks with lockable drawers, upholstered office chairs, closets, plentiful electrical outlets and dual Internet, telephone and cable TV jacks.
It also will have a number of environment-friendly features, including water-saving toilets in bathrooms.
The new building will be financed with revenue fund bonds, paid for from residence hall room fees. Residence halls are self-supporting; funds to build them come from fees paid by the students who live in them.
The project, in combination with the scheduled 2012 decommissioning of the Gage Residence Community, is part of the university’s master plan for residence hall renewal and improvement of the pedestrian experience.
Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive, doctoral university with 15,100 students, is part of the Minnesota State Colleges & Universities system, which comprises 32 institutions across the state.
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