Construction of student housing to replace Moore Hall at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has begun.
The university says work on the six-story, 147,000-square-foot residence hall was put on hold in 2020, but the project is now underway.
The new Moore Hall was designed to replace the original Moore and Sanford Hall towers and will complete South Village’s upper residential quad.
The building will have traditional double rooms for up to 692 residents and their resident advisers. Each floor will have lounges and study rooms. Other amenities will include a community kitchen, laundry room, game tables and office and living space for housing staff.
The residence hall's exterior design will reflect the existing campus architectural style.
“One of the main factors that led to the decision to build this as a traditional-style building is that it is meant to replace Moore and Sanford Halls, two of our four traditional-style buildings at Charlotte, which are our lowest-cost options," says Donny Edwards, director of facilities operations for the Housing and Residence Life Office. "With Moore and Sanford included, around 27 percent of our available beds were this style. We were not comfortable dropping down to less than 13 percent of our spaces in this price category."
KWK Architects and Jenkins Peer Architects are the building designers; New Atlantic Contracting Inc., is the builder.
