{"id":28884,"date":"2014-07-11T08:53:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T13:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=28884"},"modified":"2014-07-11T08:53:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T13:53:41","slug":"brocks-seventh-residence-will-give-students-taste-of-the-suite-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/07\/brocks-seventh-residence-will-give-students-taste-of-the-suite-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock’s seventh residence will give students taste of the suite life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jamie Fleming, Brock University director of residences, stands in front of the future Gateway Suites, Brock's seventh residence, which will be ready for the 2015-16 academic year. <\/p><\/div>\n

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Brock University students are about to get another taste of the suite life.<\/p>\n

The corner of St. David and Norman roads, which is a short walk to the St. Catharines campus, is currently a construction zone and will be home to Brock’s newest residence in time for the 2015-16 academic year.<\/p>\n

Brock’s seventh residence – called Gateway Suites – will accommodate 86 upper year, graduate and international students. There will be no first-year students and no Residence Life<\/a> staff.<\/p>\n

“We’re always taking stock of the landscape,” said Jamie Fleming, Brock’s director of residences<\/a>. “The University’s enrolment continues to climb. Also, the make up of the student population has changed over the years.
\n“Our current residences are almost all first-year students who then move off campus. Now, some will move in here.”<\/p>\n

The suite-style units will have three or four bedrooms and offer students something different than traditional dorms (DeCew, Vallee, Earp, Lowenberger) and townhouses (Village and Quarry View).<\/p>\n

Each suite will be furnished and have appliances including fridge, stove, dishwasher, washer and dryer.<\/p>\n

Brock will lease the four-storey residence from the same private developer who owns Quarry View, which opened in 2003 and is adjacent to the newest building.<\/p>\n

“Leasing space is an option a university can explore,” Fleming said. “Given the proximity and the existing relationship, this seemed to make sense.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The corner of St. David and Norman roads, which is a short walk to the St. Catharines campus, is currently a construction zone and will be home to Brock’s newest residence in time for the 2015-16 academic year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[409,1820,2070,3335,1919,2069,2071],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28887,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28884\/revisions\/28887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}