SFGATE: SUNY Poly resumes effort for dorm project at Albany campus
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Saturday, January 23, 2016 - 08:29
SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany is again looking for proposals from construction firms and developers to build its first dorm at its Fuller Road campus.
SUNY Poly has hoped to build its own student housing site since becoming independent from the University at Albany several years ago. The dorm would be ready for the start of the 2017-18 academic year.
The dorm would be built on the site of an existing parking lot at the SUNY Poly campus on Fuller Road and would house 130 students.
SUNY Poly has also issued a request for proposals (RFP) — invitations for companies to submit applications for projects — for an office building with parking between the ZEN building and NanoFabX, the large building where SUNY Poly runs its Global 450 Consortium fab.
The new building would have enough parking space for 750 cars on six to seven floors of parking that would be topped by two floors of office space that would have 50,000 square-feet each. It will also be required to have a pedestrian link between NanoFab X and ZEN. SUNY Poly wants the office and parking complex completed by March 2018.
SUNY Poly is asking developers to potentially invest in the projects and help finance them.
SUNY Poly has increasingly used private financing for its construction projects.
