Rutgers U. Plans $140-Million, 1,500-Bed Housing Project

A three-building mixed-use facility at Rutgers U. will have 1,500 beds. (Design Collective image)

Rutgers University plans to break ground this fall for a 1,500-bed, $140-million mixed-use development on its Livingston campus. The three-building, 648,000-square-foot project will feature apartment-style housing mixed with ground-floor retail.

Most of the units will have four single bedrooms, plus a living room and a kitchen. But about 200 beds will be in two-bedroom apartments intended for graduate students. The undergraduate facilities will have study lounges and classrooms as well.

Two of the buildings will have landscaped courtyards meant for both studying and socializing. The third will open onto a large retail plaza. Architects for the project are Fletcher Thompson, the architect of record, and the Design Collective, the design architect.