Located on the corner of Kalamazoo Street and Harrison Road, the project that began last fall opened to families on Aug. 10, director of communications for Residential and Hospitality Services Kat Cooper said.

Cooper said the family units are in three housing buildings, containing a total of 189 units and 318 beds. 

Family units can rent out one or two-bedroom apartments, Cooper said.

All but eight units have been rented out, with approximately 16 people waiting to sign leases, Cooper said.

Cooper said if all sign, Residential and Hospitality Services will have to open the third building,

Apartments are complete with washers, dryers, dishwashers, air conditioning and other amenities.

“It’s one all-inclusive price,” Cooper said. “Your heat, your water, your electricity, your trash, your cable, your internet, all of that is included in your rent.”

Single student housing is slated to open next fall and will begin leasing at the same time as residential halls in late October, Cooper said.

Cooper said the non-family apartments are leased by the bed.

Student housing in 1855 Place will have 505 units including University Village, Cooper said.

Cooper said the units are a combination of studios, two-bedroom and four-bedroom apartments and four-bedroom townhouses.

Construction is still in progress for these buildings.

Six apartment buildings for single student housing and the main building are in various stages of construction, project representative for Infrastructure, Planning and Facilities Andy Linebaugh said.

“They’re kind of staggered,” Linebaugh said. “The single student apartment building that is going to set above the office, mixed-use space—we have yet to start framing that. The townhouse style single student apartments that are farthest to the west, we’ll put siding up and we’re painting inside those. Everything else is in stages between that. It’s a phased delivery.”

Cooper said the main building, located at the corner of Kalamazoo Street and Harrison Road, will have community spaces, a workout room, a mailroom, and retailers.

Some of the retail space includes a Sparty’s market, Starbucks, Spartan Spirit Shop and a ticketing shop for Wharton Center or athletic tickets, Cooper said.

Linebaugh said beginning Sept. 6 and ending Sept. 23, the inner lanes will be closed on Harrison Road between Kalamazoo Street and Shaw Lane because of construction.

“We had done some work in the roadway earlier this summer and we had some issues come up with paving, so we have to fix some paving issues,” Linebaugh said.

The family housing neighborhood is already thriving. Parking lots are full and children and their family play outside.

Graduate student and resident Fahd Hassan said he likes the new apartments. 

Hassan said his family moved in last month and he plans to live there for up to five years.

“The place is awesome,” Hassan said. “It’s definitely better than University Village. The family housing really provides privacy.”