UB breaks ground on Gateway Village

The university has broken ground on Gateway Village, the fourth residential project for university students to be built in recent years.

Gateway Village will be located on both sides of Flint Road at Augspurger Road near the old UB stadium on the North Campus. It will house a mix of 540 undergraduate, graduate and professional students in one-, two- and four-bedroom units.

All units will be fully furnished and will feature living areas; kitchens with all appliances, including dishwasher; telephone lines; ample parking, and hook-ups for cable television and campus computer-network connections.

"Gateway Village is another exciting step toward improving campus community life," said Dennis Black, vice president for student affairs. "It will bring to campus 540 new residents and will bring to the residents individualized, on-campus living that is different than we've been able to offer in the past."

Those differences, Black said, include a location that is more convenient to the campus' academic spine and a design that uses interior corridors to allow residents to move from apartment to apartment and from apartment to common areas without having to go outside the buildings.

The complex will include a common room in every building and on every floor, a popular feature in traditional, dormitory-style residence halls. Other apartment-style complexes on campus feature community areas that are located in free-standing buildings.

The Gateway Village project, scheduled to open in August 2001 at an estimated cost of $22 million, is being sponsored by the University at Buffalo Foundation, Inc., and the UB Alumni Association. It was designed by Lauer-Manguso & Associates architects and will be constructed by the ADF Construction Corp.