Stevens Institute Wants To Build Dorm Towers For 1000 Students

HOBOKEN, NJ — If all goes according to plan, Stevens Institute of Technology will have new housing for 1,000 students in as little as three years.

According to school administrators, the Hoboken-based university has submitted an application to the Hoboken Planning Board for a new University Center/Student Housing project. The project, which administrators hope to open in the autumn of 2021, is projected to house about 1,000 students in two dormitory towers atop a university center.

Stevens Institute administrators said that the new dorms would increase the inventory of beds on campus and allow the school to accommodate all undergraduates who wish to live on campus, based on recent demand.

“One benefit to the community of this project will be to eliminate our leased housing program, which houses 650 students in 13 buildings throughout Hoboken, and the portion of the shuttle program that services these buildings,” administrators said.

Hopefully, the Hoboken Planning Board will have its first hearing on the project in mid-October, administrators stated.

Stevens representatives will hold a public information meeting on the project in advance of the Planning Board’s review at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 26 in the Taylor Board Room in the Howe Center on the Stevens campus. Participants should RSVP to Zulejha Osmani at zosmani@stevens.edu or 201-216-5220.

The informational meeting will address the following topics:

• Need/Context for the Project
• Zoning Parameters
• Architecture/Design
• Construction Logistics

In August, the Hoboken City Council voted 7-1 to approve the creation of a 36-acre “University District” around the college.

As part of the new zoning regulations, Stevens would be allowed to construct a pair of 21- and 19-story towers in an area currently housing Jacobus and Hayden Halls, JerseyDigs.com reported.

A map of the University District is included below. See the full ordinance here. More details can also be seen online here.

According to Stevens Institute representatives, on July 10, the Hoboken City Planning Board deemed the university district to be "substantially consistent" with city's Master Plan and Land Use Element, and that it "mirrored the intent and purpose of the [newly-adopted] Master Plan."

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