The Union at Dearborn attracting first U-M Dearborn students

Walls are up and other major progress is happening at the Union at Dearborn, attracting University of Michigan Dearborn students to sign leases at the the near-campus community housing complex.

The Union at Dearborn will open in the fall with 504 luxury apartments directly across the street from campus on Evergreen Raod. While not on campus, it offers traditional dorm amenities such as laundry rooms, mailboxes, lounges and meeting rooms and will also have fitness facilities and a theater. U-M Dearborn, long considered a commuter school, does not offer on-campus housing.

U-M Dearborn will lease part of the complex for student activities, including an eating area, study areas and spaces for campus organizations and student life activities.

Regular shuttles will take students between campus and The Union and will give the university the next best thing to a residential campus community.

The apartments are fully furnished and come in one- and two-bedroom units with private bathrooms, appliances, granite countertops and flat screen TVs.

The $30-million Union at Dearborn was developed by Urban Campus Communities, also the developer of Union at Midtown for Wayne State University students. The complex will be managed by Asset Campus Housing, which manages more than 60 campus communities in more than 20 states offering housing to students at major universities and small institutions.

Writer: Kim North Shine
Source: The Union at Dearborn