The new Woodlawn dorm that is set to open Sept 2020 looks immense and will have 1309 beds. UChicago released this Powerpoint on the new dorm that was part of a community presentation.
https://news.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/180124%20Community%20Meeting%5B4%5D.pdf
Courtesy of @BrianBoiler and @kaukauna : you can see the tower cranes at the construction site of Woodlawn Residential Commons. The west tower is more or less done in terms of exterior construction. But of course it will take a while to finish interior.
Thanks @85bears46 (and @BrianBoiler @kaukauna) for the link. I wasn’t aware of the UChicago webcam. Curious, are there others on campus? My D is in South and she’s surprised how quickly the Woodlawn structure has gone up. It will be interesting to see if the gravity of campus life shifts more to the south once construction is complete w/nearly 3000 undergrads living south of the Midway and as more development around Woodlawn is sure to follow. D is excited that a brand new Jewel-Osco grocery store is getting ready to open just three blocks away!
There’s this one which is tracking the progress of the Rubenstein Forum. Not much to look at today.
I wonder if ‘The Study at University of Chicago’ that is on the rendering/map is a hotel?
@uocparent You have eagle eyes :-)–it appears UChicago is getting into the hotel business.
From chicago.curbed.com:
While presenting updated plans for its ultra-modern Rubenstein Forum conference center, the University of Chicago also released images of a 15-story hotel proposal for its Hyde Park campus. Known as ‘The Study at University of Chicago,’ the 180-room development would become the third location of Hospitality 3’s college-oriented hotel brand. Featuring clubby, old-school decor inspired by their respective campuses, The Study has existing establishments at both Yale and Philadelphia’s University City.
As reported by DNAinfo, the Chicago project is slated for the corner of 60th Street and Dorchester Avenue, and would replace the vacant colonial style Hyde Park Day School building. The Study will also be the university’s first strictly for-profit building and is poised to be the most convenient lodging option for the Obama Presidential Center—planned roughly two blocks to the east in Jackson Park.
The Study at University of Chicago isn’t the only new hospitality development headed to the Hyde Park/Woodlawn area. Work recently began on a nine-story boutique hotel from partners Olympia Companies and Smart Hotels at the corner of Dorchester Avenue and 53rd Street.
The center of gravity of the school hasn’t shifted yet but the future of all student housing expansion is indeed south of Midway Plaisance. The University now owns almost the entire blocks between 60th and 61st Street from Stony Island all the way to Cottage Grove. I have a school map from 1985 and it certainly didn’t look that way back then.
I have to believe that the move south is strategic. The University will place all the academic buildings around the Main Quad but the only venue to put up big dorms for undergrads is south of Midway. Hence the construction of South and Woodlawn Residential Commons.
Keller Center (occupying the site of old Center of Continuing Education) just recently opened. Rubenstein Forum will be opened in 2020. And the University is proposing to demolish the Hyde Park Day School to build an 180 room hotel there (60th and Dorchester). By 2021, the foot traffic across Midway will likely double what we are seeing these days. Just imagine how busy it will be then when in a few more years the Obama Presidential Library opens.
The areas around the Woodlawn Residential Commons construction site are now blossoming with new townhouses, townhomes and upscale apartment buildings. Those areas (between 61st and 63rd along University, Ellis and Greenwood Avenues) were once upon a time urban slum but they have now for better or worse slowly been gentrified and absorbed by the university community.
“Hospitality 3’s college-oriented hotel brand. Featuring clubby, old-school decor inspired by their respective campuses”
Sounds like The Graduate at University of Michigan. Hope it is because we really enjoyed our stay at The Graduate and it would be great to have something like that at UChicago.
Darn. Briefly flipped through the pics of The Study at Yale and it’s fine, but not quite as fun as the Graduate was. Not fatal, but here’s to hoping they tart it up a little.
@milee30 That’ll be so great. I really liked The Study hotels so I’m kind of excited about it. Although I’m sure my son would have graduated by the time construction is complete, but maybe he’ll get to use it when he goes back for functions lol.
Wow, there’s a live webcam! So now, in addition to following them on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, I can also watch a live shot on University Ave and 58th St. lol. Am I missing any other social media platforms? 
(seriously, please let me know.)
@uocparent, I hear the UChicago reddit page is pretty active. Although a little more rough than here. Also, the webcam page also says there is one of the Library, but I can’t get it to work on my work PC. Probably a good thing as I know that is my son’s study hangout and I’d spend time just waiting to catch a glimpse.
Reg is closed from Tuesday 10:00 pm all the way to Thursday morning.
I can’t make the Reg webcam work either. UChicago must have turned it off.
Nice to have a UChicago webcam but just wish they had a few more and of higher quality like the ones at Amherst College: https://www.amherst.edu/visiting/amhcams/quad_large and https://www.amherst.edu/visiting/amhcams/science-center/science-center-2.
Thanks @BrianBoiler, yes I sometimes read the reddit pages, and some of them are pretty funny actually. Beware of a fake UoC subreddit (there are 2 of them. The one with more subscribers is more genuine.)
There’s also youtube, lol. Also, there are some recently uploaded photos from this past homecoming and family weekend: https://alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu/events/signature/homecoming
Maybe some of you can find yourselves in the pictures.
The Reddit page is far more popular with current students than CC (which isn’t saying much) but it also doesn’t have many alumni from before 2012 or so (which is a minus)