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November 20, 2009

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We broke ground on the new student village in May 2009. The "student village" is comprised of 11 cottage-style buildings and is designed to minimize impacts to the environment and fit into the campus' natural setting. Second 3-D rendering

"Part of Bastyr University's role as a leader in natural health arts and sciences education is to encourage and enable our students to live sustainably," says Bastyr University President Daniel K. Church, PhD. "Providing students with eco-friendly, on-campus housing is a significant milestone in furthering our mission to enhance the health and well-being of the human community."

The LEED-certified cottages are being built on the northern edge of campus along the tree line and have the capacity to house a total of 132 students — 12 individual rooms in each three-story cottage. The cottages will be connected by a series of garden paths and courtyards carefully designed to be energy efficient and mitigate impact to the local environment. Planned enhancements include the planting of native species to provide greater wildlife habitat.

3-D Site rendering With only 42 rooms currently available on campus, the University's principal objective with the new student village is to offer students — many of whom come from across the United States and 28 other countries — convenient housing that will minimize the number of commutes to campus. Other goals of the village include:

reducing pollution and traffic on local roads
creating a greater sense of community at Bastyr
further enabling students to become active members of the Kenmore community.

Plans call for each room in the cottages to include a private bath, while each cluster of 12 rooms will share a common great room, kitchen, study room, laundry room and storage. We are on schedule to open the village for students to move in summer 2010.