University of Rhode Island breaks ground on new residence hall

The University of Rhode Island has broken ground on Hillside Hall, a 429-bed residence hall for freshmen and sophomores. The university says the $42 million facility will be the most energy efficient residence hall on the Kingston campus.


NOVEMBER 2010...from The Providence Journal: The University of Rhode Island's Kingston campus is no longer a ghost town on weekends, thanks to $225 million in construction and renovations to residential facilities and amenities during the last 10 years that have dramatically increased the proportion of students living on campus, from about 39 percent to about 49 percent. Last month, heavy equipment began knocking down three squat 1950s-era apartment buildings — known collectively as The Terrace — to make way for Hillside Hall, a new five-story residence for freshmen. Hillside Hall, which is scheduled to open in the fall of 2012, will add another 429 beds to the campus, enough to push the on-campus housing capacity to 50 percent of the undergraduate enrollment of about 13,000.