FUTURE Student Housing Opens EvCC’s new student housing building, Mountain View, opened to students Sept. 11, and a second residence hall is under construction. The housing expansion was initially due to demand for housing for international students. “It’s been a wonderful surprise to see the incredible amount of interest from our domestic students in living on campus. They want a university experience on a two-year campus and we’ll be able to provide that to them,” said EvCC Director of Housing Lea Wasson, noting that some residents come from eastern Washington and out of state. Mountain View, constructed by Snohomish-based real estate developer Koz Development, Inc., is home to 120 students renting private rooms. Before Mountain View, the college ran the 36-bed Lona Vista apartments, located at 10th and Broadway. The college demolished those apartments in July to make way for the college’s second student housing building, which will open in September 2017. EvCC also knocked down a building at College Plaza to create additional parking spaces to replace spots that will be used for student housing. “These buildings are an important part of the effort to redevelop the north Broadway corridor. The local community will feel the economic impact of additional students living and going to school in this area,” said Pat Sisneros, EvCC vice president of College Services.
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