University of Idaho Builds Living & Learning Community

The Universityof Idaho is building the Living & Learning Community on its Moscow campus, a multi-purpose complex combining student housing, facilities for the International Student program, café/retail space, and 20,000 sf of classrooms. The eight multi-story residences, containing a total of 600 beds, are arranged around a central courtyard. Eighty percent of the bedrooms are singles arranged in four to five person suites with kitchenette, bathroom, and common area. Part of the University’s plan to create “the residential campus of choice," the project includes utilities construction, site development, demolition of existing structures, existing building renovation, and offsite construction of a 7,000-sf maintenance/storage facility and mini-storage building.  The first $32.5-million phase has a construction budget of  $24.5-million and is being financed through use of University tax-exempt revenue bonds. The complex will open in fall of 2003, with completion slated for summer of 2004.  Construction progress may be monitored live at www.uidaho.edu/webcams.