City of Syracuse to hold hearing over SU’s Waverly, Comstock dorm construction
The new residence halls are part of the university’s effort to increase student housing options on North Campus. Avery Magee | Asst. Photo Editor
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UPDATE: This story was updated at 2:18 p.m. on March 24, 2024.
The city of Syracuse will hold a public hearing Monday to discuss Syracuse University’s proposed plans for constructing dormitories on Waverly and Comstock Avenues.
The Common Council’s City Planning Commission will host the meeting to review the university’s applications for both construction projects. The university is set to build two new residence halls just north of SU’s main campus.
The university has started work on the project with the ongoing demolition of Marion and Kimmel Halls. It is set to tear down the Comstock Avenue parking garage in early 2025.
The plans delegate the property at 305 Waverly Ave., formerly Marion Hall, and 501 Comstock Ave, formerly Booth Garage, as lots for the dorms’ construction. Online renderings for the projects were released Friday.
The new halls are part of the university’s effort to increase student housing options on North Campus. Since SU Chancellor Kent Syverud arrived in 2014, the university and other administrators have worked toward phasing out South Campus student housing.
SU also had plans to build a new dorm at 727 Comstock Ave., but the Common Council designated the property as a locally protected site in December, preventing construction on it.
Since the council’s decision, SU has introduced adjusted plans to exclude the protected site.
CPC won’t vote on the proposals at Monday’s meeting. If the council approves the plans in the future, the residence halls will be the university’s first new dorms since Ernie Davis Hall opened in 2009.
The commission will meet in the Common Council’s chambers at 6:00 p.m.
