Frear Hall News Today

Students provided input on the design of a makeover of outdoor spaces around student housing.

The 12 new water stations feature refrigerated, filtered bottle fillers and drinking fountains with high and low spout options that are ADA compliant.

The $170-million complex will have 316 residential units for graduate students and their families and a childcare facility.

Construction cost about $73 million, but with “soft costs” including planning, design, permitting and more, the final total was close to $100 million, UH said.

The facility will consist of two buildings and include 316 units with 558 beds, a childcare facility, retail and café space, bike storage, study rooms, laundry facility, mail and package room, outdoor amenity decks and on-site management.

A newly approved University of Hawaii student housing project on Dole Street will be a landmark in a couple of ways, becoming the second public-private student housing project on the Manoa campus and housing a child care facility supported by the state’s new preschool initiative.

The approximately $156.9 million facility on Dole Street across from Frear Hall is expected to be completed in time for the fall 2025 semester.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has announced that their plans for a new student housing building project will commence in September 2023.

UH Mānoa Student Housing Services is in the beginning stages of implementing a comprehensive plan to upgrade facilities, and improve the overall student resident experience.

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