TJC Breaks Ground on New Residence Hall

TYLER — Ground was formally broken Wednesday on Tyler Junior College’s newest residence hall, at 1327 S. Baxter Ave. Slated to open in Fall 2015, the new residence hall will provide housing for 248 students, seven resident advisors, and a hall director, according to a TJC news release. Officials say the four-story, 68,000-square-foot structure will provide generous common spaces on the ground floor, including a campus plaza, lobby seating, game lounge, computer lab, dining area with a Chick-fil-A restaurant, and resident laundry facilities. The upper floors will be organized into two wings, or neighborhoods, each with its own small study nook and generous daylight exposure in common corridors, according to the release.

The two neighborhoods on each floor will share a common media/study lounge with views out to the plaza and TJC campus. The project embodies the most current thinking and trends in college student housing in the country today, according to college officials. Construction is by Smith Group JJR at a cost of $14.7 million.