ner, Knightstone Capital Management, the
new residence will replace a smaller build-
ing across the street – an old hotel the col-
lege bought and renovated in 2001 – and-
will be open to students attending any of
its four Toronto-area campuses. Demand
for student housing at Centennial has out
grown the capacity of its existing 340-bed
residence and the new 353,000-square-
foot building is expected to draw an influx
of students who live outside a reasonable
commuting distance.
“The entire building is framed out,” said
Mark Simpson, Manager, Renovations &
Special Projects for Centennial College.
“By early to mid-December it’s going to
look like a completed building from the
outside. The majority of the work after De-
cember will be interior finishing with, of
course, landscaping to follow in the spring
of 2016.”
Key partners in the project include design-
ers Diamond Schmitt Architects, construc-
tion company FRAM Building Group and
Canadian Campus Communities, the com-
pany that will operate the finished resi-
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