VCU planning new dorm with up to 1,250 beds on West Grace

VCU planning to build undergraduate dorm building on West Grace Street

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is planning to build a new dorm on West Grace Street that would house between 1,000 and 1,250 undergraduate students. This comes after last year's shortage of student-housing leaving many VCU students in alternative housing situations. In the fall semester of 2023, 80 students and five resident assistants lived in the Graduate Hotel. According to a university spokesperson, VCU is loo…

VCU planning new dorm with up to 1,250 beds on West Grace

RICHMOND, Va. -- VCU is looking to continue to transform West Grace Street.The university is currently in the early stages of planning a new dormitory of 1,000-1,250 beds that would rise at 700 W. Grace St., according to university spokesman Mike Porter.The VCU Board of Visitors is expected this week to approve the addition of the project to the universitys six-year capital plan. If the project, identified as the West Grace Street Housing Projec…