Crews are busy moving dirt behind the apartments located at the corner of Eastchester Drive and Hartley Drive. HPU is renovating them for use by its students. Sonny Hedgecock | HPE
North College Station will house as many as 300 students in two groups of renovated apartments. Last year, HPU purchased the apartments at 900 Eastchester Drive to expand student housing. The renovated North College Townhomes and North College Terrace offer studio and single and double apartments for juniors and seniors, said Chris Dudley, HPU vice president for administration.
“These will be in the mid range of the accommodations we offer on campus,” Dudley said.
North College Terrace is a three-story apartment building, and North College Townhomes has the studio apartments. All apartments have full kitchens, a washer and dryer, a living room and upgraded cable and Internet service.
“Those residents will be part of the wireless campus,” Dudley said.
Shuttle bus service will be available to take students to the center campus.
Students will pay an additional $1,500 a year to live in the apartments, according to posted rates. After the complex opens, HPU will have 3,000 students living on campus, Dudley said.
Last year, HPU opened three major projects as part of a $300 million expansion and renovation program. Campus leaders opened the $70 million University Center and dedicated the Plato Wilson School of Commerce and Nido R. Qubein School of Communication.
Overall, the projects have added 1 million square feet of space in more than a dozen new academic buildings, residence halls, athletic facilities and student activity centers. All the older campus buildings have been renovated.
HPU bought Wesleyan Homes along with the neighboring Wesleyan Arms complex at 1901 N. Centennial St. There were 80 low-income seniors living in portions of the apartment complex when HPU bought it last year. Wesleyan Arms residents will move to Providence Place facilities at Westchester Drive when Providence Place finishes work on an $8 million replacement facility to be ready by October 2011.
“There are no plans yet to do anything with that property,” Dudley said. “We want those residents to be taken care of first.”
There have been 69 residents in assisted living and 23 in the life estate residences at Wesleyan Arms.
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Deal
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Wesleyan properties: High Point University and Providence Place agreed to the sale of the Wesleyan Homes apartments and the adjacent Wesleyan Arms assisted-living complex on N. Centennial Street last year. The purchase will eventually add 15 acres to the campus.
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