Emmanuel College Gets New Residence Hall

Photo of proposed New Julie Hall courtesy of Emmanuel College

Emmanuel College has received approval from the Boston Redevelopment Authority to build a new residence hall with an eye to increasing the number of students who can live on campus.

New Julie Hall is expected to be 19 stories and contain 691 beds; Julie Hall, which it is replacing, has 220 beds. The school hopes to be able to house up to 84 percent of its students on campus, up from the current 73 percent.

For documents on the New Julie Hall project, click here.

The project was one of six approved by the BRA Thursday night. Others included a massive overhaul of the Government Center Garage site, 80 new apartments on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury, a housing project on Centre Street in West Roxbury, an addition to the Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Dorchester, and an expansion of Stillings Street Garage on Boston Wharf Road.

The Government Center Garage site will soon be home to a pair of towers, one residential and one commercial, two of six buildings planned for the site.

The residential tower is expected to be 480 feet tall and contain 486 housing units - 64 designated as affordable - and will be designed by CBT Architects. The commercial building 528 feet tall and one million square feet and will be designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects.

The two buildings will create 1,650 construction jobs, the BRA estimates.

In Dorchester, the Holiday Inn near the South Bay shopping center will get a five-story addition, increasing the number of guestrooms from 114 to 174.

At the South Stillings Garage on Boston Wharf Road, there will be two additional stories for office space. The project is expected to start this summer and take one year to complete.

In West Roxbury, the VFW Parkway apartments will be built on the old International House of Pancakes site, while the 16-unit housing development will be at the former West Roxbury Motors car dealership and service station.