The University of Virginia has selected a team to design and construct a new student housing complex to be built in the Emmet / Ivy Corridor. On January 8, UVA announced that Capstone Development Partners will partner with Elkus Manfredi Architects, Hoar Construction, and Hourigan on the project.
“It is our special privilege to design buildings and spaces on the Grounds conceived by Thomas Jefferson and known for its extraordinary sense of place,” a press release quotes David P. Manfredi, CEO and Founding Principal of Elkus Manfredi Architects.
Michael Joy, UVA’s non-voting representative on the Charlottesville Planning Commission, told his colleagues that construction is moving along on student housing projects at both the Darden School of Business and on 780 beds of undergraduate housing in the Emmet-Ivy Corridor.
“If you pass by on U.S. 250 for the Darden one or if you go by on Ivy Road, you can start to see sort of the extents of both those projects, moreso at Darden where you start to see the massing kind of coming to completion,” Joy said. “But then along Ivy they’ve come out of the ground so they’re no longer subgrade.”
Joy said there will be a lot of progress on both projects over the course of the year as they approach their topping-out. That’s when the tallest beam is put in place in a structure.
The undergraduate project at Emmet-Ivy will total 310,000 square feet and will include a 19,000 square foot dining and retail section. Local firm Waterstreet Studio worked on the landscape architectural design.
“The landscape surrounding the 780-bed student housing emphasizes accessibility and connectivity within the corridor and beyond,” reads a description on their website. “Two pedestrian promenades run through the corridor, linking to adjacent streets.”
This project is expected to be ready for the fall 2027 academic year.
At Darden there will be 218 units consisting of 350 beds. Learn more about that project here.
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