Centennial Commons

 
An artist's rendering of Centennial Commons, 2011

Centennial Commons will be a new upperclassmen housing unit at the College of St. Benedict, located on the corner of Calloway Street and College Avenue. It will house 124 students and consist of 31 new buildings. Each unit will have two full baths, laundry facilities, full kitchen with dining space, living room, storage space and shared front porches. The Centennial Commons community will emphasize sustainability, and each unit will receive a mock electrical bill to help its residents understand their actual usage of gas, water and electricity.

The new complex will cost $8 million and be available for use in the fall of 2012.  It will also include a new community center, complete with a kitchen, fitness room, computer lab and study rooms.  Centennial Commons is named after the upcoming CSB centennial in 2013.


Participants at the Centennial Commons groundbreaking, October 7, 2011

See also:
Baumgard, Mary. "Housing in works for CSB," The Record, November 10, 2010, p. 2.
"Construction of new CSB Centennial Commons townhomes underway," CSB/SJU News Release, October 12, 2011.

Special thanks to Ariel Smelter '12 for drafting this text.