Construction is underway on a massive new housing complex for graduate students in College Park.
Located just south of Campus Drive near the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, the Leonardtown development by Mosaic Development and Campus Apartments will have 465 apartments serving around 800 graduate students at the University of Maryland.
The 300,000-square-foot project, slated to be completed in late 2026, replaces older graduate student housing in the neighborhood, which is mostly made up of small single-family homes.
The development is likely just the first of other major projects in the area, which is less than a half-mile from the College Park Metro station and will soon also have a Purple Line stop as well.
Urban planners have long found that people aren’t willing to walk more than half a mile to a transit stop.
The development is designed to aim a long-running housing crunch among the more than 10,000 graduate students at the University of Maryland.
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