Partnering to Park
January 30, 2012 - Student Housing Business
As universities call on outside parties to develop student housing on campus, developers also find themselves taking on other projects as part of RFPs. Chief among these are parking, dining halls and classroom space. Companies like Ambling University Development Group (AUDG) are seeking innovations when it comes to working parking into financing and project delivery of public-private partnerships.
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New UL Lafayette Dorms Open to Students
January 2012 - Channel 10 KLFY
Huger Hall, a mirror image of the newly constructed Baker Hall, is now open to students. The addition of these two halls is part of the University’s desire to increase the density of housing on the core of campus while greatly improving students’ on-campus housing options.
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New Student Housing Includes Military and Civilian Component
December 15, 2011
Construction on seven buildings at the North Georgia College & State University campus in Dahlonega, Ga., is entering the home stretch. The properties, began by developer Ambling University Development Group in 2009, will be ready for occupancy in time for the 2012-13 academic year, beginning next August.
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North GA College & State University Cuts Ribbon on New Facilities
September 14, 2011
North Georgia College & State University, located in Dahlonega, Ga. has celebrated the opening of two new state-of-the-art campus facilities.
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UL Lafayette's Olivier Tower Offers More Than Just Parking
September 7, 2011
The University of Louisiana Lafayette recently celebrated the opening of a new, six-level mixed-use structured parking facility named Olivier Tower, The 852-space deck was constructed on a 1.31 acre site, formerly the location of the UL Lafayette Credit Union and includes 10,000 sq. ft. of customizable commercial space fronting the historic McKinley Street.
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North Georgia College & State University Cuts Ribbon on New Bookstore and Signature Dining Facility
September 7, 2011
North Georgia College & State University, located in Dahlonega, Ga. recently celebrated the opening of two new state-of-the-art facilities on their campus. The new Chestatee Building, a 47,925 sq. ft. mixed-use facility, and the new 1,215 seat dining hall will fill the needs of various auxiliary functions including a bookstore, Student Health Center, campus offices, general dining space as well as banquet hall seating.
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South Georgia College Brings New Life to On-Campus Dining
September 7, 2011
South Georgia College in Douglas, Ga. recently opened the doors to a newly renovated, 300-seat dining facility. Originally purposed as a dining hall, the 1927 building has undergone a number of renovations throughout its 84 year history, most recently providing classroom space.
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AUDG Delivers First Phase of UL Lafayette Student Housing
August 18, 2011
Ambling University Development Group is proud to announce the successful completion of Baker Hall, a new student housing community as well as Olivier Tower, a structured parking facility on the University of Louisiana (UL) Lafayette campus. After achieving financial closing on December 14th of last year, this milestone includes 462 on-campus beds and 852 spaces of structured parking, representing the first components of the phased delivery of 2,000 beds by Fall 2012.
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Students Move In the New Baker Hall at UL Lafayette
August 18, 2011 - Channel 10 KLFY
Students began moving into the brand new Baker Hall at University of Louisiana Lafayette. The 462 bed facility was completed in less than a year.
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South Georgia College to Hold Ribbon Cutting for New Dining Hall
August 18, 2011
Ten months after construction began on South Georgia College's new dining hall, the project has been completed and students are eating in a modern, new facility. The 292-capacity space is a blend of old and new architecture, and offers students a variety of dining options.
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North Georgia College & State Students to Enjoy $25M in Improvements
August 16, 2011
School starts today at North Georgia College & State University, and its 6,000 students will have two new facilities to explore in between classes. Campus now has a new bookstore, dining options and a Starbucks
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South Georgia College Begins Classes with New Dining
August 12, 2011
Three and a half months isn't a long time. But for South Georgia College students, it's long enough for the campus to have undergone some significant changes. When students return to campus for fall classes on Monday, Aug. 15, SGC will look like a very different place.
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New Dining Hall to Open on Schedule at South Georgia College
June 27, 2011
South Georgia College's new dining hall, which will be housed in the old Nursing/IT Building, is scheduled to open in August as scheduled. The dining hall will feature a new cafeteria, the SGC bookstore, convenience store and cashier.
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South Georgia College Celebrates Topping Out on Dining Hall
March 29, 2011
South Georgia College and Ambling University Development Group (AUDG) celebrated the topping out of their dining hall renovation project on the college's campus in Douglas, GA. In partnership with contractor Juneau Construction Company (JCC), the project team celebrated this notable project milestone by extending its sincere thanks to all field-level workers for their tireless efforts in the renovation of this historic structure.
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For the 2011 Best in Atlanta Real Estate Awards, Southern Polytechnic State University's Hornet Village was a finalist in the Residential category.
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Coyote Village, a 550-bed student housing building at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, has earned a major distinction in the sustainable design arena. The property, developed by Ambling University Development Group through a turnkey design-build contract with the state, has become the first residence hall in South Dakota to earn LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
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Coyote Village, a new 195,000 sf residence hall at the University of South Dakota has been awarded LEED Gold by the U.S. Green Building Council according to project developer, Ambling University Development Group. This is the University's fourth building constructed to LEED standards, setting the trend for new construction on-campus. Coyote Village is the first LEED Gold certified residence hall in the state of South Dakota and one of only a few in the country.
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In the realm of campus development, public-private partnerships are becoming a more common occurrence, but are nothing new. The trend began nearly 20 years ago as cash-strapped colleges and universities looked to the private sector to assist with the construction of student housing.
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Ambling University Development Group has received funding for a more than $100 million student housing development at University of Louisiana - Lafayette campus in Lafayette. The new project will include 1,812 beds, renovation of multiple existing buildings, and a new 1,000-space parking deck with ground floor retail space.
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Ambling University Development Group (AUDG) announced it has achieved financial closing on one of the largest on-campus projects under development in the country. At just over $100 million, the project will transform the University of Louisiana – Lafayette campus to include 1,812 new beds, renovation of multiple existing buildings, a new 1,000 space parking deck with ground floor retail as well as a full campus master plan
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Ambling University Development Group has announced its partnership with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for the development of 2,000 new beds of student housing. The company will demolish five existing structures to make way for two new housing communities and a 1,000-space parking deck with street-level commercial space.
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The first meal was served Friday afternoon in the new dining hall at North Georgia College & State University -- even though the building is more than six months from completion and the second floor doesn't have any walls. A "topping out" ceremony or celebration typically is held when the final beam is put in place in a major construction project -- marking the milestone of a significant portion of a project being completed. North Georgia's $16.2 million dining hall project is on schedule for completion in fall 2011.
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Due to support from the South Georgia College Foundation and the Atkinson-Coffee Economic Development Authority, SGC students, faculty and staff will be dining in style next fall. The SGC cafeteria, currently housed in Engram Hall, will move to the current Nursing/IT Building near Tiger Village I and II, and the Clower Student Center. A groundbreaking ceremony has been set for Oct. 27 at 4 p.m. at the site.
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The University of South Dakota is celebrating Coyote Village, The U's new apartment-style residence hall complex, with an Open House at noon on Thursday, Sept. 2, at the building's main entrance.
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Pinky Miller, assistant dean of students at USD, says the best way to describe a dorm is to turn the word into an acronym: Dreary Old Room of Mine. There’s nothing dreary about the new Coyote Village student housing, which was completed this summer in time for early-bird students to begin moving into its apartments on Aug. 1.
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New Era at SPSU
August 21, 2010 - The Marietta Daily Journal
Southern Polytechnic State University will officially open its new $38 million campus housing and dining facilities, including its first Greek housing, today at the Greek housing complex. There will be a 3 p.m. ribbon-cutting ceremony followed by a 5 p.m. tailgate barbecue.
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The ribbon cutting for the North Georgia Suites took place on Friday, Aug. 6. In his welcoming address, President Dr. David Potter said that North Georgia Suites, a project that took three years of planning and construction, was completed "on time and under budget."
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The newest building on the South Georgia College (SGC) campus is a 292-bed residence hall known as Tiger Village II. A ribbon cutting and dedication for the building was held on Thursday, August 12.
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Rainy weather on Friday, Aug. 6 may have moved the ribbon-cutting ceremony inside, but it didn't dampen the spirits of those eager to celebrate the opening of two new residence halls at North Georgia College & State University.
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The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is moving forward with plans to create an additional 2,600 on-campus housing units.
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The University of South Dakota is quiet for now, but in a few weeks, students will start pouring back onto campus and likely notice a new building. Coyote Village will house 550 students and include a 30-seat theatre, gaming room and convenience store with Starbucks drip coffee.
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Coyote Village Brings Style to Campus Living at USD
March 15, 2010 - Sioux City Journal
Stylish, state-of-the-art and convenient are three words usually not associated with living in a residence hall on campus but have you seen Coyote Village at The University of South Dakota? Coyote Village is USD's new apartment-style residence hall complex and its features have students reconsidering that style and privacy can be a part of everyday life on campus.
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Partner with a private developer. These firms can provide guidance in initiating and navigating the financing process. One such firm is Ambling University Development Group, which has helped secure bonds for 41 campus projects in the last decade.
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Ambling University Development Group (AUDG) announces plans to develop three new facilities on campus to include a new student housing residence hall, 10 Special Interest homes and a state-of-the-art dining facility in partnership with Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU) of Marietta, Georgia.
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The 195,000-sq. ft., 175-unit housing project has been under construction since late May 2009 and is expected to be completed by July 31, 2010, open for students by the beginning of next fall semester, university officials said. For now, all eyes are on Ambling Development Corporation, a Georgia-based contracting company that gave a bid of $25.3 million last year. Working hand-in-hand with Juneau Construction, Ambling was recommended to the university when preliminary plans for Coyote Village were taking place, Van Den Hul said.
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Though Georgia Hall has been home to Valdosta State University students for more than a month now, the newest residence hall on campus had its official ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday. President Schloss thanked Juneau Construction and Ambling Development for their continued dedication and work, which is helping to shape the changing landscape of the university.
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In the absence of a sweetheart lender for private, off-campus projects, some developers are turning to on-campus properties that will be owned by the university and financed through tax-exempt revenue bonds. Valdosta, Ga.-based Ambling University Development Group, for instance, recently closed on four major development transactions, despite challenging financial markets.
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Next fall, University of South Dakota students will move into Coyote Village, the new apartment-style residence hall complex. The Coyote Village project was developed by Georgia-based Ambling University Development Group, an industry leader in student housing, said Rich Van Den Hul, vice president for finance and administration.
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"Students are demanding more and more out of their housing and there are more off campus opportunities and the amenities keep growing higher and higher and this is an effort to bring more and more students back on campus," said Curt Fowler, V.P.Ambling University Development Group.
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Georgia Southern University president Dr. Bruce Grube said bricks and beds are some of the only things Centennial Place has in common with the dormitories of the past. "It is clearly not your mommy or daddy's place or where your grandparents went to college," he said. "Georgia Southern is such a size and a status now that this is almost expected on our campus."
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At the pinnacle of growth on the Valdosta State University campus stands the new Hopper Hall residential housing community. Sitting on just under two and one-half acres, the replacement facility for the original Hopper Hall stands four stories tall, postured by a pair of grand towers that frame the entrance to the central courtyard. Boasting 514 beds in suite-style rooms, Hopper Hall offers today’s contemporary students a leading-edge living and learning environment.
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The South Dakota Board of Regents authorized The University of South Dakota Thursday to go ahead with its plans to construct Coyote Village, a new student housing project that will be located south of the DakotaDome.
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South Georgia College’s Clower Center in Douglas received an award for Excellence in Rehabilitation from The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation at its 31st Annual Preservation Awards ceremony Friday, May 15, in Augusta. Built as a gymnasium for SGC in 1936, Clower Hall became a recreation area and then a storage facility for the college following the construction of a new gym in the 1960s. The building had suffered neglect and deterioration during recent years.
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North Georgia has selected Ambling University Development to manage the design and construction of the new military and civilian residence halls set to open fall semester 2010. The firm, which was also responsible for building Owen Hall, the university's first privately financed residence hall in 2001, was selected on Feb. 13 through a competitive bidding process.
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While construction on the new Georgia Hall has already started at Valdosta State University, the official groundbreaking was held Wednesday. Through a partnership with Ambling University Development Group, Juneau Construction and VSU, more than 2,100 beds have been renovated or built on campus.
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Georgia Southern University broke ground on its newest student housing venture, Centennial Place, after receiving approval at the University System of Georgia Board of Regents meeting in January. Construction officially began on February 1st by Hardin Construction Company, the project’s general contractor. Ambling University Development Group is the developer and Niles Bolton Associates is the architect for the project.
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Valdosta State University’s newest residence hall was formally dedicated Tuesday, as President Ronald M. Zaccari was joined in a ribbon cutting ceremony by representatives from the University System of Georgia, state legislators, university officials, students and members of the community.
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Creating Centennial Place, Georgia Southern University’s new 1,000-bed residence hall, calls for the talent and expertise of many people and their organizations. Scheduled for completion in July 2009, the large-scale project includes a developer, an architect and a general contractor. “Centennial Place is one of the largest construction projects that the University has undertaken,” said Vickie Hawkins, Georgia Southern University’s Director of Housing. “Working with professionals makes this project a win-win situation for everyone involved.”
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The $59.3 million student housing community, Tiger Village at Grambling State University, was awarded "Regional Deal of the Year" for the Southeast by The Bond Buyer newspaper. Ambling University Development Group (AUDG) completed the on-campus student village with development team members Ambling Construction Company, RBC Capital Markets and architect, Niles Bolton Associates.
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University Commons, the largest privately-funded university housing development in the United States, officially opened at Georgia State University in Atlanta this semester. Developed by Ambling University Development Group (AUDG) in partnership with the Georgia State Foundation Inc., the nearly 750,000 square-foot student housing project is now the on-campus home to 2,000 students.
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