Housing, dining and parking: How FSU will transform its northwest campus, starting in 2026

 

Housing, dining and parking: How FSU will transform its northwest campus, starting in 2026

Next year, the Florida State University community can expect to see what will be a massive transformation on the northwest side of campus. 

Here’s why: FSU will start constructing new residence halls, a new dining hall and more. 

While plans for a 1,200-bed residence hall at FSU is currently in the design phase, the university is looking to start construction on the future housing facility as well as an attached dining hall sometime next year

But that’s not all – as the university gears up to start constructing the new facilities in 2026, it will start building a parking garage on campus this fall. The future developments will all be located at the northwest corner of Call Street and Chieftan Way. 

In addition, two to three residence halls with a combined total of about 1,300 beds will replace FSU’s Rogers, McCollum and Salley halls, which will all be closed in 2028 following the completion of the 1,200-bed residence hall as the new facilities start being constructed afterward. 

“This project will modernize the northwest part of campus into a community that aligns with FSU’s other residence halls,” Shannon Staten, FSU’s Executive Director of University Housing and Childcare Center, said in a statement sent to the Tallahassee Democrat Aug. 2. “It increases on-campus housing from 6,707 to 8,200 beds.”  

According to the university’s master plan, the area is underutilized as it contains an abundance of surface parking. 

The residents of Rogers, McCollum and Salley Halls will move into the new 1,200-bed building as the three older housing facilities will be demolished to make room for Phase II buildings that will consist of about 1,300 beds total.