UB to Dedicate Flint Village Student Apartment Complex

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The grand opening of Flint Village, the University at Buffalo's newest student housing complex, will be held at 10 a.m. Aug. 17 in the community building of the complex on Augspurger Road on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The fourth apartment-style complex to be built by UB in four years, Flint Village will open this month for upper-division undergraduate students and graduate students, with two of the village's nine buildings reserved for students in the UB Law School.

The $22.65 million project features six, two-story buildings and three, three-story buildings. Each of the 236 units -- with a total of 536 beds -- is fully furnished, and all bedrooms are equipped with telephone and cable jacks and a computer data port. Situated on 20 acres of land at the intersection of Flint and Augspurger roads, the complex is a short walk from the North Campus academic "spine."

UB President William R. Greiner and Dennis R. Black, vice president for student affairs, will make opening and closing remarks.

The event also will include remarks by Jeremy M. Jacobs, chair of the University at Buffalo Council, and Reginald B. Newman II, chair of the UB Foundation Board of Trustees. Also scheduled to speak are David J. Saleh, president of the UB Alumni Association, and a law student who will be living in Flint Village this fall. The project was sponsored by the UB Alumni Association and the UB Foundation.

A presentation on the project will be given by James A. Allen, executive director of the Amherst Industrial Development Agency; James Manguso, senior partner of Lauer-Manguso Associates, the project's architect; Robert Savarino, president of ADF Construction, general contractor, and Thomas Trubiana, president and CEO of American Campus Communities, the project's developer.

A reception will follow the dedication ceremony, and tours of the new complex will be provided.

Flint Village is the fourth housing project erected recently by UB. Flickinger Court, located at Chestnut Ridge and Sweet Home roads near the North Campus, opened in Fall 1998 and houses 230 graduate and professional students. Hadley Village followed in 1999, providing apartment-style housing for 620 undergraduate students on the North Campus. South Lake Village, which houses 552 undergraduate and graduate students along the south shore of Lake LaSalle, opened last August.

The $70.9 million in housing construction has been accomplished without any cost to New York State taxpayers. In each case, the project has been sponsored by the University at Buffalo Foundation, working with private architects and contractors, and agencies associated with local municipalities through which financing was arranged. Rental fees paid by students -- comparable to the cost of living in a dorm -- will pay off the financing.

The university will break ground this month on a fifth project, apartment-style housing to be built along Skinnersville Road on the northern edge of campus near the Ellicott Complex. Skinnersville Village will consist of 13 two-story buildings featuring 102 two-bedroom townhouse units and 14 two-bedroom ranch-style units for a total designed occupancy of 232.

The complex, which will be reserved for UB graduate and professional students, and students with families, is expected to open in August 2002.