Nathan Hale

The Trustees Board has endorsed UConn officials to discuss the agreement to purchase the confidentially owned Nathan Hale Inn, potentially assisting to meet requirement for more student housing as the University draws and expands an growing number of new undergraduates. Acquisition of UConn will be a gainful method of meeting few of long and short term student housing needs of UConn, John Biancamano, provisional executive vice president for chief financial officer and administration, wrote in the memo to the panel that gave its support Wednesday to chase the agreement.

The Nathan Hale Inn is situated on UConn-owned campus possessions, but the inn was confidentially constructed and has been confidentially owned as it started in the year 2001. UConn has leased about half the rooms for housing student as begin of the 2014-15 educational year, and in case a purchase contract is reached, the complete building would change over the time to a hall without any hotel component.

This construction has nearness to other university abode halls, thus it would create a vital contribution to summit their need for additional housing student, declared said Michael Gilbert, vice president of UConn for student affairs.

The price of purchase would even be considerably lesser to the cost of edifice an equal dormitory in case the agreement is achieved.

By difference, new house halls cost approx $100,000 for each bed, as per on recent experience of UConn in the market.

The option of buying the Nathan Hale Inn was offered in September, at the time third party provided $8.3 million to the owners of Nathan Hale Inn. Below the conditions of lease with the company of UConn, the University has the authority right of first snub, which permits it to buy the hotel for the similar cost as a private purchaser.