Randolph-Macon College plans to open a 64-bed dorm complex on North Center Street in Ashland in time for the beginning of the 2025-2026 academic year. (Courtesy Randolph-Macon College)
The Yellow Jackets are building a bigger nest.
Randolph-Macon College intends to add a 64-bed, four-building dorm complex to its campus in Ashland. It’ll be R-MC’s first new dorm in about a decade and comes amid growing enrollment at the college.
The $10 million project is slated to rise on a 2-acre site owned by R-MC and located next to the college’s business office at 310 N. Center St.
The new dorm is anticipated to open in time for the start of the 2025-2026 academic year. The “village of apartment-style” dorms will house juniors and seniors in two-story buildings with covered porches, according to the college’s recent announcement of the project. Each apartment is planned to have four bedrooms, two bathrooms, in-unit laundry, a kitchen and living room.
Preliminary site work for the project was anticipated to start as early as this week, R-MC spokeswoman Beth Campbell said in an email Monday.
English Construction has been tapped to serve as the project’s general contractor. Moseley Architects is handling the design, and SilverCore Land Development is the project’s civil engineer.
Planned since before the start of the pandemic but delayed, the project is expected to be the first new student-housing project at R-MC since Birdsong Hall, a 120-bed dorm, was built in 2014.
The college Board of Trustees approved the project’s financing in May. R-MC is using a combination of donations and bank loans to cover the cost, which includes construction of the complex as well as new parking.
Campbell said the college’s ongoing fundraising campaign for the project stands at about $1 million. The loans financing the project are expected to mostly be paid off with revenue generated by student housing leases and parking fees.
The new student housing project comes in response to growing enrollment at the college. In its announcement of the project in mid-July, R-MC stated that it anticipates record enrollment of more than 1,600 students in the fall 2024 semester after a decade of increasing enrollment.
“This exciting project is an investment in our current enrollment success and our future growth,” R-MC President Robert Lindgren said in a prepared statement.
The total college enrollment in the last spring semester was about 1,450 students, Campbell said.
Randolph-Macon College plans to open a 64-bed dorm complex on North Center Street in Ashland in time for the beginning of the 2025-2026 academic year. (Courtesy Randolph-Macon College)
The Yellow Jackets are building a bigger nest.
Randolph-Macon College intends to add a 64-bed, four-building dorm complex to its campus in Ashland. It’ll be R-MC’s first new dorm in about a decade and comes amid growing enrollment at the college.
The $10 million project is slated to rise on a 2-acre site owned by R-MC and located next to the college’s business office at 310 N. Center St.
The new dorm is anticipated to open in time for the start of the 2025-2026 academic year. The “village of apartment-style” dorms will house juniors and seniors in two-story buildings with covered porches, according to the college’s recent announcement of the project. Each apartment is planned to have four bedrooms, two bathrooms, in-unit laundry, a kitchen and living room.
Preliminary site work for the project was anticipated to start as early as this week, R-MC spokeswoman Beth Campbell said in an email Monday.
English Construction has been tapped to serve as the project’s general contractor. Moseley Architects is handling the design, and SilverCore Land Development is the project’s civil engineer.
Planned since before the start of the pandemic but delayed, the project is expected to be the first new student-housing project at R-MC since Birdsong Hall, a 120-bed dorm, was built in 2014.
The college Board of Trustees approved the project’s financing in May. R-MC is using a combination of donations and bank loans to cover the cost, which includes construction of the complex as well as new parking.
Campbell said the college’s ongoing fundraising campaign for the project stands at about $1 million. The loans financing the project are expected to mostly be paid off with revenue generated by student housing leases and parking fees.
The new student housing project comes in response to growing enrollment at the college. In its announcement of the project in mid-July, R-MC stated that it anticipates record enrollment of more than 1,600 students in the fall 2024 semester after a decade of increasing enrollment.
“This exciting project is an investment in our current enrollment success and our future growth,” R-MC President Robert Lindgren said in a prepared statement.
The total college enrollment in the last spring semester was about 1,450 students, Campbell said.
Love love love to see such amazing growth at RMC. It’s such a beautiful campus and is thriving! Way to go President Lindgren on making it such an amazing environment for the students!!! Let’s go JACKETS!