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UC Berkeley Moves Ahead with 1,400-Bed Student Housing
The University of California Board of Regents has approved more than $7 million in predevelopment funding Thursday for the latest student housing project to enter UC Berkeley’s pipeline, a development that would add 1,400 beds to the university’s thinly stretched portfolio.
The San Francisco Business Times reported that funding will go toward site surveys, design and other preliminary work for a proposed 1,400-bed project at 2200 Bancroft Way, a 0.8-acre, Regents-owned site across the street from the southern edge of UC Berkeley’s campus. UC Berkeley expects to return to the Regents in the fall of 2024 to request approval for a full budget for the project.
The additional 1,400 beds would join the university’s existing 3,500-bed student housing pipeline. Growth of UC Berkeley’s enrollment has outstripped the pace at which the university added new housing, and today it can house just 21% of its 45,000-person enrollment.
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