Friday, December 5, 2025
Caboni to request private housing partner, lease of Campus Flats
Dorm rendering included in Gilbane’s proposal to WKU. The traffic circle is the intersection of University Boulevard, Avenue of Champions and Russellville Road.
WKU’s public-private housing partner would be a firm with roots in similar projects around the country, including projects WKU President Timothy Caboni admired, under a proposal Caboni will present to the Board of Regents next week. Also at the Dec. 11 meeting, Caboni will recommend that WKU lease the Campus Flats apartment complex on Creason Street for at least two years while Hugh Poland and Douglas Keen halls are torn down and replaced with the first of several projects under the partnership. The proposed partnership is with Gilbane, a Rhode Islandbased international real estate developer, to “undertake financing, design, construction, management, and operations of a new housing development” at WKU, according to the Board of Regents meeting agenda. Gilbane will also be responsible for the renovation and operation of existing WKU housing. Read more by Jake McMahon and Anthony Clauson
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