Phase 1 of The Courtyards complete at U-M’s North Campus

Education Realty Trust is moving along with its dorm project on the University of Michigan’s North Campus – The Courtyards. The firm just finished building the first phase of the 319-unit development this fall and expects to complete the entire project next summer.Students have moved into the first 103 apartments in the first phase. Another 216 apartments will come on line when the rest of the project is done. The development is located on Plymouth Road near Broadway Street immediately adjacent to North Campus. It’s only a few blocks away from U-M’s colleges of Engineering and Architecture and the schools of Art and Music.The dorm will feature apartments that have as few as one bedroom and one bathroom and as many as four bedrooms and four bathrooms. They will be in a series of three- and five-story buildings. The apartments are fully-furnished and are equipped with full-sized kitchens, granite countertops, in-unit washers and dryers, over-sized windows, high-speed Internet access and 90 channels of satellite television, among other amenities. There will also be recreational facilities, study and meeting rooms, a music practice room with a piano, an outdoor badminton court and a mini movie theater.Source: Bob Hetherington, spokesman for Education Realty TrustWriter: Jon Zemke