La Playa Hall
The project is funded, in part, by the State of California under Senate Bill 183 that established the “Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program” to increase the current stock of affordable student housing across the three public higher education segments in California. The campus will use a distributed-beds model for its affordable student housing that will distribute the same number of newly built beds across all campus housing offerings (rather than providing a new building solely dedicated to affordable rate housing). Not only will this help protect students from being identified by others as lower income, but this strategy also enables students of certain years to live together in the type of housing most suited for their experience. The new La Playa Hall (formerly known as Hillside North Student Housing) building design is expected to be similar in quality and student experience to the recently constructed Parkside North Student Housing building.
Project Details:
- Total project cost: $126.4M
- Construction Start Date: Summer 2024 (underway)
- Construction Completion Date: Summer 2026
- Project Delivery Method: Construction Manager at Risk (CM@R)
- Architect: Perkins & Will
- Construction Manager at Risk: Swinerton Builders
- University Design and Construction Team:
- Vivek Ghimire, Project Manager (Design)
- Luciano Nuñez, Construction Manager
- Derek Jeong, Sr. Project Engineer
- Tom Sanchez, Inspector of Record
- Lisa Salgado, Capital Projects Program Manager
