LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The University of Louisville's student athletes are scoring big with a new residence hall.

The school announced the new facility that will house a mixture of student athletes and non-student athletes is slated to open for the fall 2022 semester, located across Floyd Street from the Planet Fitness Kueber Center.

The new dorm is slated to open for the fall 2022 semester. Photo courtesy of the University of Louisville.

The 128-bed Southeast Corridor Residence Hall project is a partnership between UofL Athletics, UofL Campus Housing and third-party developer including Buffalo Construction and Larry Gough, the developer of Cardinal Towne. The developer will construct the facility for roughly $23.5 million, with $3.5 million in donor funds coming from UofL Athletics, which retains naming rights for the residence hall.

“We are excited to partner with campus housing in providing both students and student athletes a premier dorm to call home,” said UofL Vice President and Director of Athletics Vince Tyra.  “The location of the dorm will provide our men’s and women’s basketball teams and our women’s lacrosse team easy access to their primary athletic facility, the Planet Fitness Kueber Center, directly across Floyd street.  It will be a trophy facility that exudes progress on campus as much as in athletics.”

The dorm will include 128 beds. Photo courtesy of the University of Louisville.

That easy access will be provided by a skywalk which will connect the residence hall to the Planet Fitness Kueber Center where men's and women's basketball and women's lacross students train. The students will live in the residence hall in which 63 of the 128 beds will remain within the NCAA requirement of no more than 50% of beds being occupied by student athletes. UofL Athletics said it will also guarantee an additional 10 beds to be used by team managers and graduate assistants. 

For sophomore and above Sport Administration majors, the residence hall will also be a Living Learning Community (LLC). It will be managed by UofL Campus Housing and include a full-time live-in hall director and three resident assistants.

Owned by a combination of the UofL Foundation and the university, the project site will require a ground lease agreement with the Foundation. UofL said the Foundation's property is currently leased to a company that only requires a short notice to terminate the lease. The university property is currently used for campus parking.