"Work on the McCartney Street dormitories will start this month, the note says. The dorms are slated to open in fall 2020, it says. The block of homes between March and High streets was leveled in February to make way for the dorms.
The dorms will house 165 students on the second, third, and fourth floors. A first-floor diner and bookstore will be open to students, faculty, staff and the public. The old bookstore in the Farinon College Center will be converted to space for student support functions and activities.
The community fought the dorm plans for more than two years. A settlement reached in November 2018 calls for the preservation of a historic home slated for demolition, the formation of a committee to strengthen college-community bonds and the creation of an annual scholarship for one Easton Area High School senior." …
https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/2019/05/land-lease-its-the-increasingly-popular-way-to-build-dorms-according-to-lafayette-college.html
Who will new dorms house? All students? Upperclassman only? Also, do you know if there are there any plans to renovate some of the more run-down freshman dorms on campus?
I know the school has plans to increase enrollment, so they are going to need more dorm space. I was on campus a little over a year ago and they had temporary housing units set up in the parking lot at March Field. Also, funny for me to see a reference to the “old bookstore” at the Farinon Center. When I was there, there was no Farinon and the bookstore was in the basement of South College.
@TheBigChef same with me…It is also funny to see frat houses like Phi Delt now class rooms and Sigma NU a sorioty. I wonder if they still smell like stale beer.