<p>There was a public hearing tonight concerning Northeastern's new residence hall that will replace the rear portion of the YMCA complex on St. Botolph St. Construction will begin this summer with occupancy planned for September, 2013. It is awaiting final city approval but Mayor Menino supports it so approval should not be an issue. These are notes from the meeting that I saw on an architecture forum that I read:</p>
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<li>NU intends to purchase the Hastings wing (behind Dodge Hall) from the YMCA (leave it as is for now); that should cost $11 million</li>
<li>The new residence hall will be completely NU students, although NU will be leasing this building with option to purchase from the Phoenix group.</li>
<li>Building details:
Building Height: 198 feet, 17 stories
of beds: 720
Total Square footage: 200,000+</li>
<li>Dead end of St. Botolph Street will be redone and re-landscaped to look more like wavy path design(s) of the rest of Northeastern Campus.</li>
<li>The building functionally will be extremely similar to International Village</li>
<li>at least 1 large lecture room in basement (seats maybe 100 students), and 2 or 3 other classrooms (also underground)</li>
<li>floors 2 thru 12 will be jack-and-jill doubles much like the ones in the honors housing of international village (i.e. 11 floors of double bedroom dorm rooms semi-privately connected to a bathroom.</li>
<li>floors 13, 14, 15, and 16 will be apartment style, just like West Village housing. 3-4 singles per apartment (and STUNNING views of the city).</li>
<li>Top floor will be a multi-purpose hang out area for students, more space for them to relax... possibly a green roof too.</li>
<li>If West Village F and West Village H had a baby, it would be this building. Pre-fab yellow brick facade going up 2 sides, and then blue glassy facade going up the other two sides that offer the best views and most sunlight exposure.</li>
<li>Due to its height, it offers very little interference to the screetscape up close.</li>
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