University of Hawaii

LA鈥檚 biggest supportive housing complex yet tops out at 555 S. Crocker Street in DTLA

The first phase of the $170-million Residences for Graduate Students student housing facility at the University of聽贬补飞补颈驶颈聽at M膩noa has been completed just weeks after the聽.

The demolition of a two-story office building, warehouse and other structures clears the way for the construction of the two buildings (18 and 12 stories) to house over 550 graduate students and their families, along with junior faculty members. The project will include a childcare facility, caf茅 retail space, study rooms and more.

Located on the ma uka (mountain) side of Dole Street between the East-West Center and M膩noa stream, the student housing facility is scheduled to open in fall 2025.

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The fence around the construction site now features a massive mural inspired by聽, the taro patch across the street at聽UH听惭腻苍辞补听贬补飞补颈驶颈nui膩kea聽School of Hawaiian Knowledge.

鈥淚 wanted to extend that聽濒辞驶颈聽right on up to this wall over here so we can have a conversation, a connection between these two places because all of these areas would have very likely been in taro cultivation,鈥 said Native Hawaiian artist Solomon Enos, who painted the mural on October 21.

Enos also painted murals on construction fencing on the聽UH聽M膩noa campus for the Bachman Hall renovation project and the recently opened聽听(RISE).