(BCN) – Shipping containers have been fortified in Berkeley, a flash point of political and societal activity, by lambs that are stacked for more than a year – but construction in the student housing project at the University of California at Berkeley on the site.
The project, which aims to reduce the housing crisis for students, will provide more than 1,100 beds for university students. A separate building will be built with supportive housing for 100 people who are not registered next to the student’s residence.
The development comes at a time when the University of California in Berkeley continues to increase acceptance. The university admitted 787 other students in the first year this fall compared to last year. Beginners and transport students are guaranteed on campus.
A spokesman for Kyle Gibson said in an email that most of the floors have been completed in the 11 -storey building. The crews are now flowing from concrete to higher levels, and the pre -interfaces of external meals are installed by December.
Construction began last summer after years of lawsuits and protests to preserve the park as a teacher of the resistance movement. The plot of land, which has an area of approximately 3 acres, was fortified off the Telegraph Street between Maste Street and Dwight Way in January 2024 with shipping containers to keep the demonstrators in anticipation of the state’s Supreme Court ruling. While the California University Board of Directors approved the student housing project in 2021, the California Supreme Court ruled last year that the University of California in Berkeley could build its development.
In addition to housing for students, the project includes supportive housing for “more than 100 unlucky and very low income,” according to university. Gibson said it would be “besides managing cases that link the residents with the necessary services.”
“The goal is to bring a developer later this summer, two years before the expected start of construction,” he said. The construction will start after the completion of the student’s residence.
Last year, Park Advocates presented an investigation of the California Historical Information System around the residues of the potential indigenous Americans in the park. The project’s environmental impact report, or EIR, requires tribal and archaeological screens on the site during any excavation activity. “During any Earth’s inconvenience activities, there are archaeological and tribal screens at the construction site. They ensure that any local residential cultural resources or human remains are appropriately managed according to EIR for this project,” according to Jigson. So far, none of them have been found, according to the project update on July 24.
Development on the right path for opening the academic year 2027-28.
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