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Mercer University plans to add a new six-story student residence hall and parking deck near its stadium on Mercer University Drive.
Plans for the proposed building include 90 suite rooms totaling 352 beds. The five-level parking deck will have capacity for 408 parking spots, according to a proposal from Triple Point Engineering, Inc.
The Macon-based developer applied for conditional use and two variances that are set to be taken up at the next Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning meeting May 13.
“Based on current projections of undergraduate enrollment growth on the Macon campus, we will need additional beds in the fall of 2021,” Mercer University spokesman Kyle Sears said. “Because it is still in the planning stages, it does not yet have a name.”
The University expects a total of 3,500 undergraduate students on campus this fall, and as many as 4,000 by fall 2021. The current capacity is 2,850 beds, but with the addition of the new residence hall, the school would be able to “meet the needs of all the students who are required to, or want to, live in campus housing,” Sears said.
The site where dorms are planned abuts the long-closed part of College Street that cuts through campus.
This is going to be something. It's construction site is 1501 Mercer University Drive. Which is at the intersection of College Street. Presently the site is a ground level parking lot. Behind this structure sits the Mercer Bears football stadium. The football stadium was built with a capacity to hold ten thousand fans in attendance. When building the football stadium through feedback from the public or students voiced of the main plan was to design the football stadium for expansion later on in the upcoming years. In other words the Mercer Bears football stadium was built with future objectives to become a bigger beautiful stadium. The group that is contracted to build this six story dorm building is a local crew called Triple Point Engineering.
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